Types of Linguistic Corpora

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What are the four types of corpora mentioned in the text?

Standard, spoken, multimodal, web

Written, spoken, visual, digital

Standard, specialized, visual, digital

General, specialised, multimodal, web (correct)

What is the primary characteristic of general corpora?

They are primarily used for specialized research purposes

They cover as many genres and domains as possible for balance and representativeness (correct)

They focus exclusively on written language data

They are limited to specific language patterns and behaviors

Which corpora are considered part of the first generation of general corpora?

Google Corpus, Oxford English Corpus, Cambridge Spoken Corpus, British National Corpus

Corpus of American English (COCA), British National Corpus (BNC), Cambridge English Corpus (CEC), Oxford English Corpus (OEC)

Brown Corpus (BROWN), Lancaster Oslo-Bergen Corpus (LOB), Australian Corpus of English (ACE), International Corpus of English (ICE) (correct)

Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE), Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English (SBCSAE), British National Corpus (BNC)

What distinguishes the second generation of general corpora from the first?

They are significantly larger in size compared to the first generation Signup and view all the answers

What is important to note about the types of corpora mentioned?

"These types could include subdivisions (spoken versus written) and may overlap" Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary characteristic of general corpora?

They cover as many genres and domains as practically possible Signup and view all the answers

What distinguishes the second generation of general corpora from the first?

They are considered very large compared to the first generation Signup and view all the answers

Which corpora are considered part of the first generation of general corpora?

Brown Corpus (BROWN) of Written American English Signup and view all the answers

What could be included as subdivisions within the types of corpora mentioned?

Spoken versus written Signup and view all the answers

What is important to note about the types of corpora mentioned?

"These types could include subdivisions (spoken versus written) and they may overlap" Signup and view all the answers

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What are the four types of corpora mentioned in the text?

What is the primary characteristic of general corpora?

Which corpora are considered part of the first generation of general corpora?

What distinguishes the second generation of general corpora from the first?

What is important to note about the types of corpora mentioned?

What is the primary characteristic of general corpora?

What distinguishes the second generation of general corpora from the first?

Which corpora are considered part of the first generation of general corpora?

What could be included as subdivisions within the types of corpora mentioned?

What is important to note about the types of corpora mentioned?

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