Quantitative Linguistics Flashcards by Caspar Montgomery

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What is a language corpus?

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A systematic collection of naturally occurring texts (written or spoken) stored on a computer
Structure and content follow extralinguistic principles.

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What is meant by co-occurrence?

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A sequence of words that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance.

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What is collocation?

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A specific combination of words (strong co-occurence) eg. strong tea, powerful wizard

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