Corpus Linguistics

What is corpus’ synonym?

• computerized corpora

• human body

• human speaking science

• spoken and written texts

What ’BNC’ stands for?

• British Native Corporation of Speaking

• British Native Corpus

• British National Corpus

• British Native Corporation

What is a corpus?

• It is an online collection of human-based texts.

• It is the scientific name of the human body.

• It is a large and principled collection of texts stored in electronic format.

• It is a corporation which has the aim to collect and work with native spoken and written heritage.

British National Corpora contained _____ million words in the 1990s.

• 200

• 110

• 500

• 100

A specialized corpus focuses on…

• …different ways of native speaking and sounding.

• …a special part of the human speaking system.

• ... a particular spoken or written variety of language.

• …different language rules.

There are at least two ways to bring corpora into the language classroom.

• True

• False

Corpus-based studies provide basis for deciding which language features and structures are important and how various features and structures are used.

• True

• False

Which of these can be placed in a separate document?

• Header

• Tagging

• Contextual events

• Grammatical label

What is so difficult about creating spoken corpus?

• People don’t want their speaking recorded.

• It has to be transcribed into writing.

• Speaking it not made into corpus.

• There is no method to mark context and non-verbal actions.

Raw text can be used to sort words by their categories.

• True

• False