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Scholars have suggested that lexical patterning is more important than ______ in contributing to the organization of language.
grammar
Corpora are now a key tool in ______, and have been consulted in the development of most current learner dictionaries.
lexicography
Evidence from corpora of spoken discourse has highlighted the differences between spoken and written ______.
discourse
Language is largely ______ in nature, according to Biber et al. (1999) and Wray (2002).
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Corpora have now made truly descriptive ______ possible, with writers having numerous authentic examples of many grammatical structures.
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The best studies in this area can even distinguish varying language usage between different ______, for example written fiction versus academic prose.
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Evidence from corpus linguistics will likely continue to have a major influence on applied ______ thinking well into the foreseeable future.
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The mid-twentieth century domination of ______ as the overriding psychological paradigm meant that only stimuli and reactions were considered worthy of discussion.
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Saussure split ______ (‘langue’) from the actual use of language (‘parole’).
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Chomsky’s ideas distinguished what was happening inside the learner (‘language ______’) from what was observable outside the person (‘language performance’).
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