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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"multiword units"”.
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Quantitative determinants of prefabs: A corpus-based, experimental study of multiword units in the lexicon
… relies on a large number of preassembled multiword units, or 'prefabs' (Bolinger 1976). A usage-based perspective predicts that linguistic units, including prefabs, arise via repeated use, and prefabs should thus be associated with the frequency with which words co-occur (Langacker 1987). …
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A computer-aided error analysis of Saudi students’ written English and an evaluation of the efficacy of using the data- driven learning approach to teach collocations and lexical phrases
… seem to be problematic for Saudi EFL learners. Multiword units are notoriously difficult for L2 learners, and the Saudi EFL context is no exception; in the second and third studies a number of collocations and lexical phrases were selected from the SLC to be taught using DDL paper-based and …