Variance

The variance of linguistic features indicates the dispersion of each feature across a range of variation. When features vary in a similar way, they have a shared variance. This phenomenon is directly related to co-occurrence. By means of factor analysis different factors can be extracted one after the other considering the maximum amount of shared variance (cf. Biber and Gray, Chapter 21).

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