Corpus-based studies in language use, language learning, and language documentation / edited by John Newman, Harald Baayen and Sally Rice.

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 developmen...

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Other Authors: Newman, John, 1948- (Editor), Baayen, R. Harald (Editor), Rice, Sally, 1956- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Editions Rodopi, 2011.
Series:Language and computers ; no. 73.
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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.
Item Description:"Collection of selected papers presented at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference, held in Edmonton, Alberta, on October 8-11, 2009."
Creating and using A frequency dictionary of Contemporary American English: word sketches, collocates, and thematic lists.
Physical Description:1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9789401206884
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9042034017
9789042034013
9786613366221
6613366226
1283366223
9781283366229
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.