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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"British National Corpus"”.
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The Spoken British National Corpus 2014 : design, compilation and analysis
The ESRC-funded Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University (CASS) and the English Language Teaching group at Cambridge University Press (CUP) have compiled a new, publicly-accessible corpus of spoken British English from the 2010s, known as the Spoken British National …
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The use of <i>fuck</i>: A sociolinguistic approach to the usage of <i>fuck</i> in the BNC and blog authorship corpus
<p>The present study is a corpus-based approach using both the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Blog Authorship Corpus (BAC) to identify variance in spoken use of <em>fuck</em> between genders, age groups, and social classes. The resulting analysis shows that there is little variance in use …
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Supporting Collocation Learning
… way. This thesis makes two claims: (1) corpus data can be presented in different ways to facilitate effective collocation learning, and (2) a computer system can be constructed to help learners systematically strengthen and enhance their collocation knowledge. To investigate the first …
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What's in a laugh? Humour, jokes and laughter in the conversational corpus of the BNC
… conversations recorded in the UK for the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT). It is a broad-based study that aims to elucidate how humour and laughter function in the general population, thus seeking to overcome the limits of humour studies …
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Detecting grammatical errors with treebank-induced, probabilistic parsers
… by inserting common grammatical errors into the British National Corpus. The results are compared to two traditional approaches, one that uses a hand-crafted, discriminative grammar, the XLE ParGram English LFG, and one based on part-of-speech n-grams. In addition, the baseline methods and the …
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Using Corpora with Taiwanese college students in a Student-centred
… the students’ use of and attitudes towards corpus-assisted translation are seldom discussed. This research addresses the following two issues regarding the implementation of a student-centred corpus-assisted translation approach with twenty-nine Taiwanese university students undertaking …
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Exploring the development of 'verb gram' sequences and grammar patterns in L2 writing: A case study of L1 Korean speakers
… has made a significant contribution to learner corpus research. To date, a plethora of studies has explored various linguistic structures, such as constructions, in terms of usage. However, some known research gaps should be addressed. First, most of the studies utilized a smaller learner …
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Semantic prosody in Thai
… and has become a primary research interest in corpus linguistics. This thesis undertakes the groundwork of fundamental research into semantic prosody in Thai, a language which has not been subject to studies of semantic prosody before, to set out the parameters for subsequent research in this …
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Polysemous English phrasal verbs: EFL textbook distribution, students' receptive and productive knowledge and teachers' beliefs in the Greek Cypriot context
… 100 most frequently used phrasal verbs in the British National Corpus has on average 5.6 meaning senses, while, Garnier and Schmitt (2015) concluded that each of the 150 most frequently used phrasal verbs in the Corpus of Contemporary American English has on average two meaning senses. …
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In ruimtes vasgekeer: 'n Kognitiewe benadering tot metafore in dekoloniale diskoers
Afrikaans: Die kognitiewe linguistiek voer aan dat meeste abstrakte konsepte slegs in terme van metafore bedink en verstaan kan word. Dekolonialiteit as abstrakte konsep is steeds ’n vurige besprekingspunt in die konteks van hoër onderwys in Suid-Afrika. Hierdie verhandeling beoog om die verband …