2009 Course Handbook
LING317: Corpus Linguistics
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.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 2 |
| When Offered: | D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year |
| Staff Contact: | Dr Jan Tent |
| Prerequisites: | LING210 or LING211 |
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| Unit Designations: | Science |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of Linguistics |
Timetable Information
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