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What is the Loanword Percentage We Can Expect in Slovak Texts?

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2020

Abstract

The study builds on the article Frequency of Lexical Units of Foreign Origin in Slovak (Garabík - Karčová, 2019) which describes the origins of the most frequent words in Slovak texts and concludes that there is unexpectedly low percentage of loanwords in the sample. Our study analyses their dataset further to explore the relation of the word's frequency and its probability of being a loanword, discovering that there is an inverse proportion between these two variables.

Upon these findings we build the model of the loanword distribution that answers our question articulated in the title of this paper.