科学60秒:在书香中追觅文化
It’s a database of 5.2 million books, published since the year 1500. That’s four percent of all the books ever published, with a total of 500 billion words. The focus is on English language culture, so ____2____ of the books are in English.
Among the first findings of the research, published in the journal Science: about, 8500 new words enter the English language ____3____. But many of them don’t end up in dictionaries. And about ____4____—actors become famous around age 30, writers around 40, and politicians around 50. But the fame of politicians can eventually exceed that of actors.
A Google tool called the Books Ngram Viewer is ____5____ based on this data—users can track the usage and frequency of a word or phrase over the past few centuries. Thus, we can watch the fall and rise of Melville. And soon the rise and fall of Snooki.
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