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Collocation and word association.
- Source :
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International Journal of Corpus Linguistics . 2018, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p85-113. 29p. 8 Charts, 2 Graphs. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- This paper studies the relationship between grammar and language use by comparing word association and collocation. Since word association reveals mental semantic knowledge, usage-based approaches expect word association to mirror the relation between words in use, namely collocation. The paragraph is a more apt unit for collocation than the sentence in mirroring word association. Among measures of collocation, (simple) log likelihood and t-score turn out to be more consistent with association, with log likelihood leading by a small margin over MI or MI3. Overall, word association and collocation are quite close, but not perfectly close because of differences in relevant resources and the characteristics of lexical/semantic relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13846655
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 129898137
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.15116.kan