Collocations have recently received increased attention in applied linguistic studies; however, still relatively little is known about the way in which collocations are used by speakers of foreign languages. This article provides an overview of the research which has been carried out in this area, and makes some suggestions as to the directions for future investigations. Collocations are unders...

This paper presents a detailed survey of word co-occurrence measures used in natural language processing. Word co-occurrence information is vital for accurate computational text treatment, it is important to distinguish words which can combine freely with other words from other words whose preferences to generate phrases are restricted. The latter words together with their typical co-occurring ...

This study examines the relative role of collocations (and its sub-types) and effect sociolinguistic factors on reading comprehension skills 4th-grade primary school students learning Turkish as a second language (L2). For this purpose, recruits L1 L2 from Başakşehir, Beylikdüzü, Fatih, Esenler districts Istanbul. The researchers collected data using Language Social Background Questionnaire (LS...

Collocations, or restricted lexical co-occurrence, are a difficult issue in natural language processing because their semantics cannot be derived from the semantics of their constituents. Therefore, such verb-noun combinations as “take a break,” “catch a bus,” “have lunch” can be interpreted incorrectly by automatic semantic analysis. Since collocations are combinations frequently used in texts...

Collocations such as heavy rain or make [a] decision, are combinations of two elements where one (the base) is freely chosen, while the choice of the other (collocate) is restricted, depending on the base. Collocations present difficulties even to advanced language learners, who usually struggle to find the right collocate to express a particular meaning, e.g., both heavy and strong express the...

Research hitherto has tended to show that, like vocabulary errors, wrong collocations are often due to transfer from L1, and hence that greater typological difference from the target language leads to more serious collocational errors. We tested this hypothesis by comparing the collocational errors of Swedish and Chinese students. 100 university students from each environment wrote a short essa...

Collocations, i.e., recurrent word combinations such as take advantage (of), strong tea, and deeply absorbed, are receiving increasing attention in SLA research because of their importance to “native-like” production of language. Previous studies suggest that collocations pose a serious challenge to language learners and that learners’ L1 plays a crucial role in this respect. My paper aims to s...

This article discusses the treatment of collocations in the context of a long-term project on the development of multilingual NLP tools. Besides “classical” two-word collocations, we will focus on the case of complex collocations (3 words or more) for which a recursive design is presented in the form of collocation of collocations. Although comparatively less numerous than two-word collocations...

In this paper, we will try to show how formal linguistics applied the study of diachrony can be a fundamental asset for research (and consequently also teaching at university level) in field French language and literature. We treat successively analysis support verbs (§2), realization (§3), intensity collocations (§4) pragmatically restricted clichés (§5). each section, present discuss numerous...

In this paper we have studied some pairs of paraphrases which are present in a linguistic resource called badele.3000, a data base that contains more than 3,600 high frequency Spanish nouns and 2,800 high frequency Spanish verbs. The restricted combinatory of both kinds of words means more that 23,000 collocations, which are expressed by Lexical Functions, a tool of Meaning-Text Theory. Through...