this paper is concerned with the analysis of the spoken language of teenagers, taken from a newly developed specialised corpus the british and taiwanese teenage intercultural communication corpus (batticc). more specifically, the study employs a discourse analytical approach to examine vague language in an intercultural context among a group of british and taiwanese adolescents, paying particul...

We present a method for identifying corresponding themes across several corpora that are focused on related, but distinct, domains. This task is approached through simultaneous clustering of keyword sets extracted from the analyzed corpora. Our algorithm extends the informationbottleneck soft clustering method for a suitable setting consisting of several datasets. Experimentation with topical c...

Writing is considered one of the most difficult skills in EFL/ESL. Thus, meticulous recognition and classification of students’ errors in certain contexts is a worthwhile endeavor which provides us with both diagnostic and prognostic power. Accordingly, a total of 430 students in 15 English writing classes held during 12 consecutive semesters in a private university in central Taiwan were the s...

introduction: interhemispheric transmission of signal is done by corpus callosum (cc) as the largest fiber tract in brain. cc comprised 5 segments of rostrum, genu, body, isthmus, and splenium. contradictory reports exist about sexual dimorphism of cc. we designed this study to assess probable sexual differences of cc and its different parts in men and women. methods: we analyzed magnetic reson...

This paper investigates a special type of recurrent expressions, lexical bundles, defined as a sequence of three or more words that co-occur frequently in a particular register (Biber et al., 1999). Considering the importance of this group of multi-word sequences in academic prose, this study explores the forms and syntactic structures of three- and four-word bundles in English abstracts writte...

This study is a quantitative and functional corpus-based study of self-mention in soft science Master theses. One important purpose of this study was to find out the functions of self-mention in soft science Master theses. For this purpose, 20 soft science Master theses in four disciplines (Applied linguistics, Psychology, Geography, and Political sciences), were randomly selected out of the li...

Over recent years, the use of corpora in stylistic analysis has grown in popularity. However, questions still remain over the remit of corpus stylistics, its distinction from corpus linguistics generally and its capacity to explain complex stylistic effects. This article argues in favour of an integrated corpus stylistics; that is, an approach to corpus stylistics that integrates it with other ...

The Pirahã language has been at the center of recent debates in linguistics, in large part because it is claimed not to exhibit recursion, a purported universal of human language. Here, we present an analysis of a novel corpus of natural Pirahã speech that was originally collected by Dan Everett and Steve Sheldon. We make the corpus freely available for further research. In the corpus, Pirahã s...

This article presents the original results of Polish language statistical analysis, based on the orthographic and phonemic language corpus. Phonemic language corpus for Polish was developed by using automatic grapheme-to-phoneme conversion of the source orthographic language corpus, obtained from the National Corpus of Polish (NCP). The corpus contains the most frequently used Polish words, wri...