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Presentation at: https://prezi.com/view/98ghgfuI0VcrJUtiDdmB/
Presentation at: https://prezi.com/view/98ghgfuI0VcrJUtiDdmB/
Easy access to this site: https://tinyurl.com/corporalt
Easy access to this site: https://tinyurl.com/corporalt
Corpus linguistics uses a body (corpus) of works and analyses it with concordances and other statistical and quantitative methods.
Corpus linguistics uses a body (corpus) of works and analyses it with concordances and other statistical and quantitative methods.
See below for examples of concordances and quantitative linguistics.
See below for examples of concordances and quantitative linguistics.
Links for concordancing and Ngrams:
Links for concordancing and Ngrams:
Shakespeare Concordance: http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/concordance/
Shakespeare Concordance: http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/concordance/
Ngrams from Google Books: https://books.google.com/ngrams
Ngrams from Google Books: https://books.google.com/ngrams
Wikipedia on Ngrams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram
Wikipedia on Ngrams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram
Word count.org: http://www.wordcount.org/main.php
Word count.org: http://www.wordcount.org/main.php
Zipf's Law
Zipf's Law
from vsauce (vsauce.com)
from vsauce (vsauce.com)
Additional information: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
Additional information: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
How can we use this in class?
How can we use this in class?
1. By teaching frequent words and chunks
1. By teaching frequent words and chunks
2. With Lextutor (www.lextutor.ca)
2. With Lextutor (www.lextutor.ca)
3. Build on what you already do:
3. Build on what you already do:
We could and should build our own corpora:
We could and should build our own corpora:
A KWIC (key word in context) look at the this student corpus:
A KWIC (key word in context) look at the this student corpus:
Videos that can help:
Videos that can help:
A seminar on using corpora at the New School with Dr. Randi Reppen
A seminar on using corpora at the New School with Dr. Randi Reppen
Irene Schoenberg on using Corpus Linguistics to write the Focus on Grammar books
Irene Schoenberg on using Corpus Linguistics to write the Focus on Grammar books
The Video on Zipf's Law
The Video on Zipf's Law
Another funny video from Vsauce
Another funny video from Vsauce
COACA'S Video Instruction Manual
COACA'S Video Instruction Manual
(Many more such tutorial videos exist on youTube and at the sites of various corpora).
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