Words and Word N-Grams
Statistics at the level of the word examine the composition and distribution of a song’s vocabulary, the grammatical classes it draws upon, and the recurring word pairs and phrases it forms. They also capture distinctive features of the lexicon, including references to places, slang, neologisms, and wordplay.
Word Frequencies
Absolute and relative frequencies for word forms, ranked by occurrence count.
Zipf's Law for Words
Rank-frequency plot for the top 1,000 word tokens, with a theoretical Zipf reference curve.
Neologisms & Occasionalisms
Manually annotated lexical innovations across all artist archives, visualised as word clouds.
Keyword Analysis
Lemmas statistically over-represented in each archive vs. the rest of the corpus, ranked by log-likelihood G².
Word Repetitions
Words that appear two or more times in direct succession within a sentence, with example contexts.
Palindromes & Reverse Word Pairs
Word forms whose character reversal (case-insensitive) is also attested in the corpus — palindromes and anadromes alike.
Longest Words
The longest word-formations and expressive character lengthenings, in two separate panels.
Location Names
800+ named places from the song texts plotted on an interactive map.
Part-of-Speech Distribution
Proportions of 14 POS categories (nouns, verbs, pronouns, etc.) shown as a donut chart.
Most Frequent Nouns
Top-200 noun lemmas per archive, with absolute frequencies and share of noun tokens.
Personal Pronouns
Proportional distribution of ich, du, er, sie, es, wir, ihr, Sie shown as a donut chart.
Modal Verbs
Frequencies of the six German modal verbs (können, wollen, müssen, sollen, dürfen, mögen) shown as a donut chart.
Corpus Coverage
Percentage of running tokens covered by the N most frequent lemmas — cumulative coverage curve on a log scale.
Token Bigrams
Strongest two-token collocations ranked by logDice, MI³, and Lexical Gravity — sortable and searchable.
Token Trigrams
Strongest three-token sequences ranked by association measures — sortable and searchable.
Apostrophic Elision
Rates of leading ('ne), trailing (hab'), and internal (g'rad) apostrophe-marked elision, with top examples per archive.
Jugendwörter in the Corpus
Annual youth words of the year: which ones appear in song lyrics, how often, and in which archives?