Research in Action: Constructing Age for Young Readers

This repository contains all the code supplementing the article by Vanessa Joosen, Research in Action: Constructing Age for Young Readers. In: International Research in Children’s Literature 14.3 (2021): 252–268.

More specifically, the files are the following:

- IRCL_parser.ipynb --> Jupyter Notebook, containing code for linguistic parsing

- IRCL_speech_distribution.ipynb --> Jupyter Notebook, containing code for investigating speech distribution

- IRCL_speech_scatterplot.ipynb --> Jupyter Notebook, containing code for building a Scatterplot (based on the wonderful Scattertext implementation by Jason S. Kessler; arxiv.org/abs/1703.00565).

- norm_age.py --> Python script for extracting labeled information from the corpus according to specific age categorization methods