Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
Bulté, B., & Roothooft, H. (2020). Investigating the interrelationship between rated L2 proficiency and linguistic complexity in L2 speech. System, 102246. Abstract This study investigates the relationship between nine quantitative measures of L2 speech complexity and subjectively rated L2 proficiency by comparing the oral productions of English L2 learners at five IELTS proficiency levels. We carry … Read more
A selection of extracts form : Tyler, A. (2010). Usage-Based Approaches to Language and Their Applications to Second Language Learning. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 30, 270-291. doi:10.1017/S0267190510000140 The central idea in usage-based models is that a user’s language emerges as a result of exposure to numerous usage events (Kemmer & Barlow, 2000), that is, situated instances … Read more
Linguists and psychologists often study sentences in isolation, which may be akin to studying animals in separate cages in a zoo. I have been guilty of this in much of my own work. Our understanding of language will undoubtedly benefit from more focus on language in its natural habitat: conversation (e.g., Du Bois et al., … Read more
This message distributed on the corpora list by Prof Tony Berber Sardinha, Director, LAEL. Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics The recordings of the following LAEL webinars are available at:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9-sGRAJFwaPj0I4U3aR0jA Speaker: Tove Larsson, Uppsala University, Sweden; Un. Catholique Louvain, BelgiumTitle: On Learner Corpus Research and things I wish someone had told me when I was a … Read more
This information from corpora-bounces@uib.no SyntagNet, a resource with 88,000 lexical-semantic combinations, is now out! We are proud to announce that SyntagNet 1.0 (http://syntagnet.org) is now available for download at http://syntagnet.org/download. Developed at the Sapienza NLP group (http://nlp.uniroma1.it), the multilingual Natural Language Processing group at the Sapienza University of Rome, SyntagNet is a manually-curated large-scale lexical-semantic … Read more
URL: https://langident.hypotheses.org/talc2020/baby-talc2020-e-grapheles En fonction des dernières informations concernant le coronavirus et les recommandations officielles en France, nous ne pourrons plus organiser en présentiel le colloque au mois de mai. L’organisation envisagée avec des moyens technologiques est également compromise dans la mesure où les restrictions concernent l’ensemble des personnels et des locaux. En ce sens, nous projetons de reporter ce colloque … Read more