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LING317 Corpus Linguistics
Availability : |
D1 X1 |
Credit Points |
4 |
Convenor(s) |
Professor Pam Peters , Dr Canzhong Wu |
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Description
Computer databases of written and spoken language provide a rich resource for investigating aspects of language as small as the phoneme or as large as whole texts. This unit focuses first on the behaviour of words, their frequencies and the collocations they enter into. It widens the scope to show what syntactic properties of words can be quantified with more and less sophisticated software. The extent to which genre identity can be established by computational means will be explored. Overall the unit shows how empirical data from computer corpora can complement other forms of linguistic description.