General Concepts
Types of Corpus
Specialized Corpora
Corpus Linguistics Tools
Corpus Applications
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  • What is a corpus in linguistics?



  • A large, structured collection of texts used for language analysis


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  • What is a monolingual corpus?



  • A corpus that contains texts in one language only.


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  • What is a spoken corpus?



  •  A collection of transcribed speech data.


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  • What is concordance?



  • A list showing every occurrence of a word or phrase in a corpus with context.


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  • How can corpora help in language teaching?



  • By providing authentic examples of word usage.


200


  • What is corpus linguistics?



  • The study of language based on examples taken from real-world texts.


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  •  What is a multilingual corpus?



  • A corpus that includes texts in two or more languages.


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  • What is a written corpus?



  • A collection of written texts such as books, articles, or reports.


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  • What is frequency analysis?



  •  A method to count how often words or phrases appear in a corpus.


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  • How can corpora be used in lexicography?



  • To create more accurate dictionary entries.


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  • What is a token in corpus studies?



  • An individual occurrence of a word in a text.


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  • What is a parallel corpus?



  • A corpus containing the same texts in different languages, aligned for translation studies.


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  • What is a learner corpus?



  • A collection of texts written by language learners, used to study learner errors.

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  • What is collocation?



  • Words that frequently occur together (e.g., make a decision).


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  • How can corpora assist in translation studies?



  • By comparing word choices and structures across languages.


400


  • What is a lemma?



  • The base or dictionary form of a word (e.g., go for goes, going, went).


400


  • What is a comparable corpus?



  • A corpus with texts from different languages on similar topics, but not direct translations.


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  • What is a historical corpus?



  • A corpus containing texts from earlier periods to study language change.


400


  • Name one famous corpus analysis software.



  • AntConc, Sketch Engine, or WordSmith Tools.


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  • How do corpora contribute to language research?



  • They allow researchers to test hypotheses about real language use.


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  • What is the main purpose of corpus linguistics?



  • To study how language is actually used in real contexts, not just theoretically.


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  • What is a monitor corpus?



  • A corpus that is regularly updated with new texts to track language change over time.


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  • What is a diachronic corpus?



  • A corpus that includes texts from different time periods to study language evolution.


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  • What does keyword analysis do?



  • Identifies words that occur unusually frequently compared to a reference corpus.


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  • How can corpora be used in artificial intelligence or NLP?



  • To train models for speech recognition, translation, and text generation.


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