Corpus

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Across
  1. 5. Records transcribed speech (e.g., London-Lund Corpus).
  2. 8. Corpus was one of the first balanced collections of American English texts.
  3. 9. A measure of how easy or difficult a text is to understand.
  4. 13. Identifying whether a word is a noun, verb, adjective, etc., in a text.
  5. 15. A group of words derived from the same root (e.g., “act,” “action,” “active”).
  6. 16. A large collection of texts used for language analysis.
  7. 17. A sequence of words frequently appearing together (e.g., “on the other hand”).
Down
  1. 1. A tool that shows how words appear in different contexts.
  2. 2. The third area of language teaching that corpus linguistics addresses is defined as situation of use.!
  3. 3. .. is the study of phrases. … is a central element of corpus lin-guistics:
  4. 4. The process of breaking text into words or phrases for analysis.
  5. 6. Sequences of words used to analyze patterns in text (e.g., “big data” is a 2-gram).
  6. 7. Covers various genres (e.g., British National Corpus).
  7. 10. Adding labels or tags (e.g., part of speech) to words in a corpus.
  8. 11. The base form of a word (e.g., “running” → “run”).
  9. 12. A method to determine how often words appear in a text or corpus.
  10. 14. Test A fill-in-the-gap exercise to test vocabulary and comprehension