Corpus-based studies in language use, language learning, and language documentation

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.
Subjects:
Linguistics > Congresses.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
Linguistics
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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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