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Figure 7.3 clearly demonstrates that, with the exception of terms of endearment, the
Traveller family use vocatives considerably more frequently than their settled
equivalents. This is most obvious in the use of kin titles – the Traveller family use
this vocative form more than five times as frequently as the settled family and this
can be seen from the frequency counts in Table 7.5:
Table 7.5: Word frequency counts for kin titles in SettCorp and TravCorp
SettCorp
TravCorp
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