Introduction to the R package Ordinal for sociolinguistic evaluation analyzes
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2023v26n3p115-128Keywords:
Ordinal, Social evaluation, SociolinguisticsAbstract
This article introduces the Ordinal package (CHRISTENSEN, 2022) for the analysis of social evaluation tests, highlighting its contributions to sociolinguistic research. Evaluation studies have the potential to generate data of very different natures, since there is great variability in methodological procedures. The focus of this work is on ordinal data, whose levels establish a hierarchical relationship (for example, A>B>C). To illustrate the analysis, we used the corpus of Souza Guerreiro (2023), which investigates the evaluation of speakers from Rio de Janeiro in relation to the phenomenon of pretonic vowel raising. The results indicate that the participants tend to elect elementary school to the speaker who produces a raised vowel in syllable ending in rhotic. On the other hand, when syllables ends in sibilant, the tendency is to attribute secondary education to the speaker. The main advantages of the Ordinal package identified in the analysis were: there is no limitation of levels of the dependent variable; the model predictions are produced in a mathematically adequate way to the ordinal nature of the data and the model output allows to visualize, in a scalar way, the effect of independent variables on the levels of the dependent variable.
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