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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Linguistic Methods"”.
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Literary Dialect In Flannery O'Connor's "The Lame Shall Enter First" And "Good Country People"
… read and loved short stories. By employing sociolinguistic, quantitative, qualitative, and corpus linguistic methods along with R Studio to gather data about literary dialect utilized in Flannery O’Connor’s short stories “Good Country People” and “The Lame Shall Enter First”, I argue that not …
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Liudijimo imunitetai baudžiamajame procese /
… in the CCP. The use of historical and linguistic methods helps to reveal the roots and current understanding of the witness immunity institute. The analysis of European Court of Human Rights litigation and its comparison to Lithuanian courts litigation is presented to determine, if …
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Terminologische Untersuchung des Diagnostischen und Statistischen Manuals psychischer Störungen (DSM-IV) - ein Vergleich des Originals und der deutschen Übersetzung
… chapter was looked at and by utilization of linguistic methods it was shown whether the demand for a standardized psychopathologic vocabulary was fulfilled. Another focal item was the analysis of the compatibility of the DSM-IV terminology and of some well-known and often used symptom check …
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Automatic correction of grammatical errors in non-native English text
… learning, using a combination of statistical and linguistic methods. We show that syntactic analysis enables extraction of more salient features. We address issues concerning robustness in feature extraction from non-native texts; and also design a framework for simultaneous correction of multiple …
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Understanding and supporting large-scale requirements management
… effort in this thesis are to provide effective methods in supporting mentioned requirements management activities in a situation when the size of them and their complexity require large time and skills efforts. Based on empirical research, where both quantitative and qualitative approaches were …
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Dealing with spelling variation in Early Modern English texts
… period, the opportunities for historial corpus linguistic research have never been greater. However, it has been observed in prior research, and quantified on a large-scale for the first time in this thesis, that texts from this period contain significant amounts of spelling variation until the …
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A lexical and morphological analysis of the vernacularization of medical vocabulary in Augsburg from 1470–1500: the creation and application of the German Medical Incunabula Corpus
… information necessary in preparation for various linguistic studies. It then explains the process of GeMedIC’s digital creation and the requirements for its compilation. Thereafter, the raw text corpus is applied to multiple questions in historical linguistics. The first section of the analysis …
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Misreading English meter : 1400-1514
… metrical collapse: cultural depression and linguistic instability. Chapter Two outlines an alternative framework to the statistical and linguistic methods that have come to dominate metrical studies. In their place I propose an interdisciplinary approach that combines the two techniques with …
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A corpus-assisted study of the discourses of infertility in UK blogs, news articles and clinic websites
… as yet there is almost no research into the linguistic or discursive representations of infertility, an absence addressed by this thesis, in the research question what are the discourses of infertility? The combination of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis (CADS) has been fruitfully …
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Seeing the World through Tearful Eyes: Similes in Job’s Laments
… highlighting notable works that apply cognitive-linguistic methods to study metaphors and similes in the HB/OT, with a particular focus on the book of Job. It then outlines the basics of a linguistic-literary approach—an adaptation of the Conceptual Blending model—that I have developed to analyse …
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Quantifying syntactic priming in oral production : a corpus-based investigation into dyadic interaction of L1-L1 and L2-L2 speakers of English
… study uses an innovative combination of corpus-linguistic methods and manual analyses to identify syntactic priming of verb-particle constructions (e.g., taking out a paper vs. taking a paper out), the dative construction (e.g., giving Emma a paper vs. giving a paper to Emma) and the …
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Corpus linguistics for History : the methodology of investigating place-name discourses in digitised nineteenth-century newspapers
… potential of approaches from the field of corpus linguistics to be useful to historical research. Specifically, two sets of methodological issues are considered that arise when corpus linguistic methods are used on digitised historical sources. The first set of issues surrounds optical character …