A key criticism of corpus methods by rationalists is that corpora cannot account for the _______ creativity of language.
infinite
__ linguistics focuses on innate structures and logical reasoning over data.
Rationalist
Corpus linguistics belongs to the __ tradition, relying on real-world data to study language.
empirical
what is coropus?
A corpus is a large, structured set of texts that represent real-world language usage.
What is the British National Corpus (BNC)?
The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100-million-word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of genres in British English.
What are the differences between speech and writing?
Spoken language tends to be more spontaneous, interactive, and context-dependent, whereas written language is typically more planned, formal, and independent o
The __ Corpus was one of the first balanced collections of American English texts.
Brown
What is the main purpose of corpus-based grammar and vocabulary analysis?
The main purpose is to find patterns in how grammar and vocabulary are used in real language by studying large collections of texts.
What do we call data collected from real-world observations or experiments?
Empirical data
Corpora can be used to study all aspects of __________, including grammar, vocabulary, and discourse.
Language
Noam Chomsky introduced the concept of __ Grammar, emphasizing innate language principles.
Universal
What is called a list of all occurrences of a particular word or phrase in a corpus, shown with surrounding context, to study how words are used?
Concordance
What is a Collocation?
combinations of words
What is genre?
Genre refers to a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter
Do you know 2 main types of corpora?
General Corpus and Specialized Corpus
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