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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"corpus-based study"”.
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L1 Acquisition of Japanese Particles: A Corpus-Based Study
<p>This dissertation is a comprehensive examination of L1 Japanese particle acquisition using two sets of corpora of naturalistic speech, JCHAT, longitudinal speech data of three Japanese children and the mothers (Miyata 2004a, b, and c, and MacWhinney 2000), and CHJ, adult-to-adult telephone …
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The Semantics of Russian 'About' Prepositions: A Corpus-Based Study
This study examines, for the purpose of comparison, the semantic content of several important prepositions in modern Russian which translate ‘about, concerning’. It focuses primarily on the two primary prepositions o+LOC and pro, and includes the two secondary prepositions nas¿¿et and po povodu, …
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A corpus-based study of some linguistic features of metaphor
… linguistic expressions in non-literary corpus data. In this thesis I use corpus data to examine a number of polysemous lexemes and I attempt to establish whether their metaphorical meanings, the lexical relations holding between these meanings, and aspects of their collocational and …
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The syntax of verb phrases in Tonga: a corpus-based study
This study investigated the syntax of verb phrases in Tonga language which is one of the Bantu languages found in Southern Province of Zambia. The descriptive study was carried out to examine whether or not verb phrases in Tonga can be analysed using insights from Government Binding (GB). Data was …
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The syntax of verb phrases in Tonga: a corpus-based study
This study investigated the syntax of verb phrases in Tonga language which is one of the Bantu languages found in Southern Province of Zambia. The descriptive study was carried out to examine whether or not verb phrases in Tonga can be analysed using insights from Government Binding (GB). Data was …
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A corpus based study of representation of foreign countries in the South Korean Press
… particularly North Korea and the United States. Corpus investigation techniques are used with a corpus comprising articles from the on-line English versions of three Korean newspapers: the Korea Herald, the Korea Times, and the Chosun Ilbo. The corpus is half a million words and Wordsmith Tools …
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Diachronic word-formation: a corpus-based study of derived nominalizations in the history of English.
… The Early Modern section of HCET (Helsinki Corpus of English Texts, 1500-1700), and ARCHER (A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers, 1650-1990). The case studies are situated within an integrated theoretical framework of change in derivational morphology which addresses …
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A corpus-based study of academic-collocation use and patterns in postgraduate Computer Science students’ writing
… a specific discipline (Computer Science in this study) vary from that of NS and expert writers? This study has three main aims. First, it investigates the use of lexical academic collocations in NNS and NS Computer Science students’ MSc dissertations and compares their uses with those by expert …
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A Corpus-Based Study on the Portuguese Translations of English Adversative Coordinating Conjunctions and Adverbs in News Texts
The present study examines how adversative coordinating conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs are translated from English into Brazilian Portuguese through a parallel corpus built specifically for this research. The corpus is composed of 59 news articles extracted from the online versions of the …
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Evaluative meanings and disciplinary values: a corpus-based study of adjective patterns in research articles in applied linguistics and business studies
The purpose of this study is to investigate disciplinary variation in academic writing, focusing in particular on the use of adjective patterns followed by prepositions. The analysis proceeds through a detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis of these patterns in two large corpora of …
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Epistemic modality in social science research articles written by Ghanaian authors : a corpus-based study of disciplinary and native vs. non-native variations
Using a corpus-based methodology, this thesis reports a study into how non-native Ghanaian academic authors of English in the disciplines of Sociology, Economics and Law deploy epistemic modality devices as rhetorical features of argumentation in their research articles (RAs) published in journals …
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An investigation of incidental vocabulary learning using English online consumer electronics review with undergraduates of Computer Science (EdD TESOL)
… vocabulary learning (Schmitt, 2010). The present study seeks to design an English reading course for Taiwanese undergraduates using online consumer electronics reviews as authentic materials so as to provide opportunities for incidental vocabulary learning to occur. The study was divided into …
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The translation of original metaphors from Spanish to English in two novels by Carmen Laforet : Nada and La isla y los demonios
… uniformity between translators’ solutions. This study investigates how literary translators approach this challenge, focusing on Spanish-English translations of a novel containing plenty of original metaphors: Nada (1945), by Spanish author Carmen Laforet (1921-2004). Original metaphors from the …
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Definite and Indefinite Articles in Learner English: Identifying the Learning Problem and Addressing It with Processing Instruction Intervention
… the learner problem, I conducted a learner corpus-based study of English article use by L2 learners with four typologically distinct first languages (L1s): German and Brazilian Portuguese, both [+art], Chinese and Russian, [-art]. I coded and analysed 660 written scripts from the Education …
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An analytical study of word frequency for pedagogical purposes based on a corpus derived from the business news sections of locally published English language newspapers in Taiwan
… abundant business.<br/><br/>This research is a corpus-based study with both quantitative and qualitative approaches with the aim of ascertaining the lexical features of business news so as to assist Taiwan’s university students in reading business news articles for better comprehension. For this …