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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"corpus studies"”.
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Apples and Oranges: Indicative Independence versus Subjunctive Subordination
… in the literature. Through a series of extensive corpus studies using the Corpus del Español (Davies 2002-), this thesis provides robust quantitative evidence in support of analyzing indicative complements as akin to definite nominals predicated on a null pro prior to the complementizer (Torrego & …
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The perception of clauses in 6- and 8-month-old German-learning infants : influence of pause duration and the natural pause hierarchy
… use these cues to recognise them. Furthermore, corpus studies on the occurrence and distribution of pauses have revealed that there is a strong correlation between the duration of a pause and the type of boundary it marks (e.g., Butcher, 1981, for German). Pauses between words are either …
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The Vocabulary Demands of Popular English Songs
… language learners. To address this need, this corpus-driven study investigated the vocabulary demands of popular English songs. A comprehensive corpus of popular English song lyrics was created for this study. Songs for the corpus were selected according to their impact and influence on …
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Impact of the type of referring expression on the acquisition of word order variation
… sentences to address this issue. Three corpus analyses were conducted to investigate the impact of givenness, topic status and the type of referring expression on word order in the spontaneous speech of two- to four-year-olds and the child-directed speech produced by their mothers. The …