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1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations. |
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Language and computers : studies in practical linguistics ; no. 73
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Language and computers ; no. 73.
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"Collection of selected papers presented at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference, held in Edmonton, Alberta, on October 8-11, 2009." |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. Language Use; I haven't drank in weeks: the use of past tense forms as past participles in English corpora; Irregular -im suffixation in Tok Pisin: exploratory methods in multivariate analysis; Complex extractions in a diachronic perspective; Subject ellipsis by text type: an investigation using ICE-GB; 2. Language Learning; Language learners as language researchers: the acquisition of English grammar through corpus-aided discovery learning approach mediated by intra- and interpersonal dialogues. |
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A novel, web-based, parallel concordancer for use in the ESL/EFL classroomSyntactic aspects of the writing of Swedish L2 learners of English; Age tagging and word frequency for learners' dictionaries; 3. Language Documentation; The expanding horizons of corpus analysis; Developing a text-based corpus of the language of Japanese comics (manga); Corpus linguistics and language documentation: challenges for collaboration; The Speech Accent Archive: towards a typology of English accents. |
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Creating and using A frequency dictionary of Contemporary American English: word sketches, collocates, and thematic lists. |
| Summary |
This volume consists of selected papers from the 2009 meeting of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics. The chapters cover aspects of language use (usage-based accounts of morphology/syntax of English and Tok Pisin), language learning (corpus-based learning of English, syntactic development observable in a Learner Corpus of English, "core" vocabulary items for learners of English) and language documentation (a new and innovative usage-based frequency dictionary of English, proposals to broaden the traditional understanding of a corpus in various directions, e.g., constructing a corpu. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Linguistics -- Congresses.
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Linguistics -- Congresses. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Newman, John, 1948- editor.
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Baayen, R. Harald, editor.
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Rice, Sally, 1956- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Corpus-based studies in language use, language learning, and language documentation. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011 9042034017 (DLC) 2012372484 (OCoLC)760411744 |
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9789401206884 (electronic book) |
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9401206880 (electronic book) |
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9789042034013 |
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