Marie-Catherine de Marneffe & Micha Elsner
LING 5050 - Technical tools for linguists
Maysession 2016
DUE: Friday May 20, 2016 (no late homework accepted!)
We want to address the question of whether women talk more than men. To answer this, we will use the Fisher corpus on Carmen.
Write a python script that outputs
- the raw total number of words spoken by women
- the raw total number of words spoken by men
- the total number of utterances spoken by women
- the total number of utterance spoken by men
- the average number of words per utterance spoken by women and by men
- the number of female speakers
- the number of male speakers
You will submit your code on Carmen. Make sure your code runs. Make sure to appropriately comment your code! Find the right balance in your comments: too few or too many isn't helpful.