Factor Analysis of Utterances in Japanese Fiction-Writing Based on BCCWJ Speaker Information Corpus

Table 7

Average factor scores for categories about genders and ages.

		Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 4	Factor 5	Factor 6	Factor 7	Factor 8	Factor 9	Factor 10
		Neutral	Frank	Dialect	Polite	Feminine	Crude	Aged	Interrogative	Approval	Dandy
Male	Young	-0.15	0.26	0.10	-0.27	-0.19	0.15	-0.16	0.08	-0.08	0.16
	Middle	0.06	-0.19	0.01	0.06	-0.26	0.08	0.04	-0.01	0.02	0.14
	Aged	0.25	-0.18	0.03	0.12	-0.22	0.01	0.60	0.10	0.10	0.29
Female	Young	-0.22	0.47	-0.06	-0.23	0.38	-0.15	-0.14	0.03	-0.19	-0.18
	Middle	-0.06	0.35	-0.02	-0.05	0.69	-0.18	-0.11	0.02	-0.03	-0.35
	Aged	0.02	0.31	0.05	0.06	0.22	-0.05	0.07	0.03	0.17	-0.12