this paper reports results from a corpus-based study that explored the frequency of words in the abstracts of applied linguistics journal articles. the abstracts of major articles in leading applied linguists journals, published since 2005 up to november 2001 were analyzed using software modules from the compleat lexical tutor. the output includes a list of the most frequent content words, list...

This study investigates the influence of semantic incongruency on vocabulary acquisition Kurdish learners English and different factors involved in resolving such incongruency. It also examines whether level language proficiency is key facilitating learner understanding this phenomenon. To these ends, a mixed method approach that features quantitative qualitative data collection was adopted, fo...

This paper presents a supervised method for resolving metonymies. We enhance a commonly used feature set with features extracted based on collocation information from corpora, generalized using lexical and encyclopedic knowledge to determine the preferred sense of the potentially metonymic word using methods from unsupervised word sense disambiguation. The methodology developed addresses one is...

We introduce a new, linguistically grounded measure of collocativity based on the property of limited modifiability and test it on German PP-verb combinations. We show that our measure not only significantly outperforms the standard lexical association measures typically employed for collocation extraction, but also yields a valuable by-product for the creation of collocation databases, viz. po...

To search a large dictionary for a collocation expressing a desired meaning, the human reader needs some kind of hierarchical structure that would facilitate such search. In this paper, fragments of semantic classification of modifiers are elaborated based on several highly modifier-productive nouns, namely, common nouns person, action, look, corporation, and price, as well the terms coating, m...

This article attempts to analyze the differences and similarities in domain, collocation, semantic prosody of Chinese synonyms “jiǎn, qiē, kǎn, gē” native language corpus learner corpus, using online retrieval tool Sketch Engine. Firstly, usage domains word frequency distributions these four verbs are statistically analyzed. Secondly, common collocations retrieved sorted based on LogDice values...

Nowadays, society needs to understand the Covid-19 virus and improve appropriate attitudes actions, especially Generation Z. The present study aimed investigate adolescents' knowledge, responses, attitudes. This research method was a descriptive case study. Data were collected using free word association test semi-structured interviews. Respondents amounted 400 people with an age range of 17-24...

In this paper, we consider the use of techniques that lead naturally towards using distributional lexical semantics for the automatic construction of corpora-specific stop word lists. We propose and evaluate a method for calculating stop words based on collocation, frequency information and comparisons of distributions within and across samples. This method is tested against the Enron email cor...