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Towards an n-grammar of English
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Document type :
Partie d'ouvrage
Title :
Towards an n-grammar of English
Author(s) :
Cappelle, Bert [Auteur] refId
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]
Grabar, Natalia [Auteur] refId
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]
Book title :
Constructionist Approaches to Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching
Publication date :
2016-10
English keyword(s) :
ESL/EFL
POS n-grams
frequency
constructicon
grammar teaching
HAL domain(s) :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique
English abstract : [en]
In this chapter, it is shown how we can develop a new type of learner’s or student’s grammar based on n-grams (sequences of 2 or 3, 4, etc. items) automatically extracted from a large corpus, such as the Corpus of Contemporary ...
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In this chapter, it is shown how we can develop a new type of learner’s or student’s grammar based on n-grams (sequences of 2 or 3, 4, etc. items) automatically extracted from a large corpus, such as the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The notion of n-gram and its primary role in statistical language modelling is first discussed. The part-of-speech (POS) tagging provided for lexical n-grams in COCA is then demonstrated to be useful for the identification of frequent structural strings in the corpus. We propose using the hundred most frequent POS-based 5-grams as the content around which an ‘n-grammar’ of English can be constructed. We counter some obvious objections to this approach (e.g. that these patterns only scratch the surface, or that they display much overlap among them) and describe extra features for this grammar, relating to the patterns’ productivity, corpus dispersion, functional description and practice potential.Show less >
Language :
Anglais
Audience :
Internationale
Popular science :
Non
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