https://sms.linguistik.uzh.ch/ 2026-04-06T01:19:23+00:00 https://sms.linguistik.uzh.ch/ https://sms.linguistik.uzh.ch/_media/wiki/logo.png text/html 2022-06-27T07:21:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sms.linguistik.uzh.ch/05_facts_and_figures/01_corpus?rev=1656314492&do=diff The Corpus The corpus consists of roughly 500'000 tokens. However, counting tokens in a corpus with that many emoticons and other special characters as well as with a spelling that deviates greatly from the norm is nearly impossible. There is e.g. one participants who does not use any spaces in his SMS. His SMS consequently get counted as one single token. Thus, the figure has to be seen as an approximation. text/html 2022-06-27T07:21:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sms.linguistik.uzh.ch/05_facts_and_figures/02_sms?rev=1656314492&do=diff SMS in the corpus There were two collections of SMS. The first produced 23'988 SMS and took place between end October 2009 and February 2010. The second collection was only advertised on the Italian and Romansh part of Switzerland in order to produce more SMS in those two languages. It produces another 1'959 SMS, mainly in the intended languages but also in others. This collection took place between end April 2011 and July 2011. text/html 2022-06-27T07:21:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sms.linguistik.uzh.ch/05_facts_and_figures/03_participants?rev=1656314492&do=diff Participants When working with the corpus, please be careful to differentiate between people who only participated and people who also filled in the questionnaire. Of the 2'784 people who sent in SMS, only 1'316 answered the questionnaire. When retrieving any statistical data about age, sex, etc., you do not get information about all participants, but about the people who filled in the questionnaire. These 1'316 participants, however, wrote 20'413 SMS, thus personal data is available for nearly… text/html 2022-06-27T07:21:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sms.linguistik.uzh.ch/05_facts_and_figures/04_mothertongue?rev=1656314492&do=diff Mother Tongues People filling in our questionnaire gave the following languages as their mother tongues: Participants%Swiss German90969French25720High German16513Italian1078Romansh645Other12910 Percentages were calculated with 1316 participants as a basis for 100%. The total thus comes to more than 100%, because several people declared having more than one mother tongues. More precisely, 176 people selected two mother tongues and 27 chose three of them. text/html 2022-06-27T07:21:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sms.linguistik.uzh.ch/05_facts_and_figures/05_languages?rev=1656314492&do=diff Languages in the Corpus The following languages and varieties were annotated in the SMS. Please check our methodology for annotating languages to fully understand these figures. Variety/language Abbreviation Number of SMS German