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What are the four types of corpora mentioned in the text?
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?
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?
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?
What distinguishes the second generation of general corpora from the first?
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What is important to note about the types of corpora mentioned?
What is important to note about the types of corpora mentioned?
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What is the primary characteristic of general corpora?
What is the primary characteristic of general corpora?
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What distinguishes the second generation of general corpora from the first?
What distinguishes the second generation of general corpora from the first?
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Which corpora are considered part of the first generation of general corpora?
Which corpora are considered part of the first generation of general corpora?
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What could be included as subdivisions within the types of corpora mentioned?
What could be included as subdivisions within the types of corpora mentioned?
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What is important to note about the types of corpora mentioned?
What is important to note about the types of corpora mentioned?
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