Supporting collocation learning with a digital library [PDF]
, 2010 Extensive knowledge of collocations is a key factor that distinguishes learners from fluent native speakers. Such knowledge is difficult to acquire simply because there is so much of it.
Franken, Margaret +2 more
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On the Importance of Raising Collocational Awareness in Translation Practices [PDF]
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica, 2022 The knowledge of medium-strength and field-specific collocations is a prerequisite for sounding native-like and as such an essential skill to have for future translators. While students are usually familiar with the use of idioms and fixed expressions,
Tünde Nagy
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Usage Effects on the Cognitive Routinization of Chinese Resultative Verbs [PDF]
, 2012 The present study adopts a corpus-oriented usage-based approach to the grammar of Chinese resultative verbs. Zooming in on a specific class of V-kai constructions, this paper aims to elucidate the effect of frequency in actual usage events on shaping the
Wang Ben Pin-Yun
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A Corpus-Based, Pilot Study of Lexical Stress Variation in American English [PDF]
, 2010 Phonological free variation describes the phenomenon of there being more than one pronunciation for a word without any change in meaning (e.g. because, schedule, vehicle).
A. Cruttenden +10 more
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Semantic analysis of "Qarib" in the Qur'an with the approach of bringing together divine attributes [PDF]
پژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی, 2021 “Qarib” is one of the ultimate concepts in the system of religious beliefs and this adjective as a mysterious quality in the Quran indicates the proximity of God to man.
fateme ًQorbani +1 more
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Discourse and identity in a corpus of lesbian erotica [PDF]
, 2011 This article uses corpus linguistic methodologies to explore representations of lesbian desires and identities in a corpus of lesbian erotica from the 1980s and 1990s.
Baker P. +27 more
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Measuring receptive collocational competence across proficiency levels
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2015 The present study investigates, (i) English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ receptive collocational knowledge growth in relation to their linguistic proficiency level; (ii) how much receptive collocational knowledge is acquired as proficiency ...
Déogratias Nizonkiza
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Introducing Emotioncy as a Contribution to Persian Lexicography [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2021 A dictionary is a repository of various kinds of linguistic information about words. It presents general information about words such as the words’ meaning, pronunciation, etymology, and the syntactic category to which it belongs, collocational or ...
Reza Pishghadam +2 more
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Collocation analysis for UMLS knowledge-based word sense disambiguation [PDF]
BMC Bioinformatics, 2011 The effectiveness of knowledge-based word sense disambiguation (WSD) approaches depends in part on the information available in the reference knowledge resource. Off the shelf, these resources are not optimized for WSD and might lack terms to model the context properly.
Jimeno-Yepes, A +2 more
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Collocational competence of primary and secondary school students
ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2015 The aim of the paper is to test collocational competence of primary and secondary school students to establish the most frequent problems they encounter.
Miščin Evelina
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