Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
The Multidimensional Analysis Tagger is a program for Windows that replicates Biber’s (1988) Variation across Speech and Writing tagger for the multidimensional functional analysis of English texts, generally applied for studies on text type or genre variation. The program can generate a grammatically annotated version of the corpus selected as well as the necessary statistics to perform a … Read more
Shelley Staples; Jesse Egbert; Geoff LaFlair A multi-dimensional comparison of oral proficiency interviews to conversation, academic and professional spoken registers MELAB : Michigan Engish Language Battery 989 OPIs in 2013 OPI used for academic and profesional purposes Only transcribed the first 5 minutes 55 linguistic features TagCount FA 6 factor solution Dimensions interpreted functionally Dimension scores Differences across … Read more
Corpus Linguistics 2015, University of Lancaster, 21-24 July Yu Yuan: “Exploring the variation in world Learner Englishes: A multidimensional analysis of L2 written corpora” 109 features included in the analysis RQ: Can Biber’s model be extended? How do features co-occur in learner English? Data ICLE 1.0 (Granger, 2002) SWEECL 2.0 (Wen & Wang, 2008) … Read more