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Information & Library Science: Move 1 "Establish A Territory" analysis

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Title: Pitfalls in Corpus Research
Author(s): TONI RIETVELD, ROELAND VAN HOUT and MIRJAMERNESTUS
Journal: Computers and the Humanities?38?(2004).

Generalization: the use of corpora in language research

1. The use of corpora has become common in language research over the last decades.

 

  2. In many branches of linguistics, corpora provide core data for survey research and for the development and testing of hypotheses.
  3.The origins of these corpora can be manifold: texts from the Middle Ages, series of samples from current newspapers, essays written by school pupils, or letters written by emigrants to those who stayed behind.
  4.Corpora of speech may just include transcripts,
  4.1.but rapid developments in storage capacity and computational power have made the availability of sound and video signals a reality.
  5.Research tools have been developed to make these corpora easily accessible.