However, exclamation marks were overused. Researchers found 35,171 examples in total, with some young writers using five at a time.
The study of more than 31million words will be compared with future research to see how written language evolves.
Popular US fiction such as the Twilight vampire novels and films is thought to be fuelling the increasing use of American vocabulary and spelling.
Modern technology was also influential. Out of almost 300 references to ‘blackberry’, nearly half referred to mobile phones.
如果一项对儿童作文的研究结果可靠的话,那么比起狄更斯或莎士比亚的影响,书面英语的未来受好莱坞电影的影响会更大。
对7.4万个短篇故事的分析发现,这些书面作品中到处都是美式英语、感叹号和名人的名字。
研究人员阅读了全国作文比赛的参赛作品后发现,作文中越来越多地使用美式英语词汇,如garbage(垃圾)、trash can(垃圾桶)、sidewalk(人行道)、candy(糖果)、sneakers(运动鞋)、soda(苏打水)、cranky(暴躁不安的)和flashlight(手电筒)。
这些故事是由7岁至13岁的小学生写作的,从中可见小学生们用fairy cake(仙女蛋糕)来指代cupcake(杯形蛋糕),晚礼服的说法也从tuxedo变成了dinner jacket。
现在小学生常用美式英语smart来取代英式英语clever,用cranky来取代irritable。
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