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Literary and Linguistic Computing Advance Access originally published online on September 6, 2007
Literary and Linguistic Computing 2007 22(4):447-468; doi:10.1093/llc/fqm019
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Goldsmith's Contributions to the Weekly Magazine

Peter Dixon

Queen Mary, University of London, UK

David Mannion

Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Correspondence: David Mannion, 30 St Margaret's Road, Oxford OX2 6RX, UK. E-mail: david.mannion{at}btinternet.com

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Fifteen items in the Weekly Magazine have been attributed to Goldsmith. Our study uses traditional kinds of internal evidence (mainly verbal parallels) together with evidence from selected linguistic features. A preliminary analysis identifies features which best distinguish Goldsmith samples from those of a number of contemporary authors. Using this selection of features, we calculate the distances of the fifteen Weekly items from the cluster of Goldsmith samples; an item at too large a distance is unlikely to be his. A parallel investigation is based on sentence-length statistics. We conclude that seven essays may plausibly be assigned to Goldsmith, that he probably co-authored two pieces, and that in three cases he merely made minor additions to material from other sources.


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