LING1109 - module key concepts wk 4-5

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Corpus linguistics brings a set..

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of methods to the empirical study of language

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Corpus linguists work with…

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datasets too large to be read and analysed by individual researchers

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Corpus linguistics uses techniques like…

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frequency lists and concordance lines to study study patterns in corpora

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A corpus is best used

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to answer a research question it was designed to answer

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Corpora can be

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written, spoken or signed

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The “corpus driven” approach examines..

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what is frequent or salient in the data

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The “corpus based” approaches..

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involves bring a hypothesis to the data and testing it out.

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Monitor corpora develops

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dataset that grows over time and that contains a variety of materials

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Sample corpora seek to

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represent a particular type of language over a specific period of time

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Corpus linguists use..

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transparent, replicable methods, to avoid selecting only examples from their data that support their hypothesis

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Corpora can be

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monolingual, bilingual or multilingual

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A parallel corpus contains..

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texts in a native language (L1), and their translations (L2)

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A comparable corpus

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is a corpus based on the same sampling frame as another corpus

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Corpus linguistics uses large collections of..

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machine readable texts to search for patterns in discourse

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Collocates are words

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that typically accompany a “node” word (that is the word that you are interested in studying)

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“Token” is used to refer

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to overall frequency of lexical items; “type” means the different words that turn up in corpus

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“Salience”

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refers to how strongly connected a word is to another word, and can be measured in various ways

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Individual collocates can be grouped into..

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a set of related lexical items in an identified topic area or category established by the analyst

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“Lexical richness” means..

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there are a lot of different words in the same topic area, measurable by overall frequency of tokens in the category, or proportion of tokens in a category