Frozen Binomials on the Web: Word Ordering and Language Conventions in Online Text
Table 13. Number of total lists (log scale) and percent of lists that are frozen. There is no correlation between size and frozenness, but note that news is far more frozen than any other data source.
['[EMPTY]', 'Size', 'Frozenness']
Wine reviews are a highly stylized form of text. In this case reviews are often just a few sentences, and they use a specialized vocabulary meant for wine tasting. There is some evidence of an additional freezing effect in binomials such as (’aromas’, ’flavors’) and (’scents’, ’flavors’) which both are frozen in the wine reviews, but are not frozen on Reddit. However, this does not seem to have a more general effect. Additionally, there are a number of binomials which appear frozen on Reddit, but have low asymmetry in the wine reviews, such as [’lemon’, ’lime’].