Project stages
- Rate of intensification
Ito, R. & Sali Tagliamonte (2003). "Well weird, right dodgy, very strange, really cool: Layering and recycling in English intensifiers", Language in Society.
- Identify all adjectives in corpus and see what proportion is intensified - misses intensification of other POS
- What intensifiers are used, at what rate, and by whom
- What is the phonetic realization of intensification?