Linguistic investigation of Harry Potter books 1 and 7 - what changed?
This project (written in Perl) took the first and 7th Harry Potter book as input and compared them:
- Which literary figures do occur most frequently?
- What are the proportions of stop words and content words?
- What is the type-token-ratio? I.e. How high is the vocabulary richness?
- What are the proportions of positive and negative words? I.e. did the atmosphere change?
Results of the investigation and further information can be found in the PDF.