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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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- A collection of transcribed speech data.
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- 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.
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- 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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- 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.
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- The base or dictionary form of a word (e.g., go for goes, going, went).
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- 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.
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- 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.