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What is the main characteristic of a general corpus?
What is the main characteristic of a general corpus?
- It is limited to a specific time frame.
- It is designed to investigate a particular type of language.
- It includes texts from different languages.
- It represents language in its broadest sense. (correct)
What is the purpose of a reference corpus?
What is the purpose of a reference corpus?
- To trace the development of a language over time.
- To produce reference materials for language learning. (correct)
- To analyze the language of a specific social setting.
- To investigate a particular type of language.
What is the main difference between a general corpus and a specialized corpus?
What is the main difference between a general corpus and a specialized corpus?
- The type of texts included. (correct)
- The size of the corpus.
- The language of the texts.
- The time frame of the texts.
What is the purpose of a diachronic corpus?
What is the purpose of a diachronic corpus?
What is the name of the corpus that includes informal registers of British English?
What is the name of the corpus that includes informal registers of British English?
How many words does the BNC corpus contain?
How many words does the BNC corpus contain?
What is the name of the corpus that includes spoken registers in a US academic setting?
What is the name of the corpus that includes spoken registers in a US academic setting?
What is the main characteristic of a specialized corpus?
What is the main characteristic of a specialized corpus?
What is the primary purpose of Learner's Corpora?
What is the primary purpose of Learner's Corpora?
What is the characteristic of Comparable Corpora?
What is the characteristic of Comparable Corpora?
What is the primary purpose of Parallel Corpora?
What is the primary purpose of Parallel Corpora?
What is the name of the Corpus that contains 1.5 million words?
What is the name of the Corpus that contains 1.5 million words?
What is the primary purpose of Regional Corpora?
What is the primary purpose of Regional Corpora?
What is the characteristic of the International Corpus of English (ICE)?
What is the characteristic of the International Corpus of English (ICE)?
What is the size of the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE)?
What is the size of the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE)?
What can Comparable Corpora be used for?
What can Comparable Corpora be used for?
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Study Notes
Corpora
- A corpus is a large, structured set of electronically stored texts used for statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, and linguistic rule validation.
Types of Corpora
- General Corpora: Representative of language in its broadest sense, serving as a baseline for comparative studies of general linguistic features.
- Examples: BROWN Corpus (1 million words), LOB Corpus (1 million words), BNC (British National Corpus, 100 million words)
- Specialized Corpora: Designed with specific research goals in mind, focusing on a particular type of text, register, or language variety.
- Examples: CANCODE (Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English, 5 million words), MICASE (Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English, 5 million words)
- Historical or Diachronic Corpora: Texts from different time periods, aiming to represent a stage or stages of a language's development.
- Example: Helsinki Corpus (700-1700 texts, 1.5 million words)
- Regional Corpora: Representative of a regional variety of a language, such as dialects.
- Learner's Corpora: Representative of language produced by learners, including spoken and written language samples from non-native speakers.
- Examples: Louvain English Essays (LOCNEE) Corpus, International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE, 20,000 words)
- Comparable Corpora: Two or more corpora in different languages or varieties of a language, designed along the same lines.
- Example: International Corpus of English (ICE, 1 million words each of different varieties of English)
- Parallel Corpora: Two or more corpora in different languages, each containing translated texts or simultaneously produced texts in multiple languages.
- Used by translators and learners to identify equivalent expressions and investigate linguistic differences.
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