Beginning Portuguese corpus linguistics: exploring a corpus to teach Portuguese as a foreign language

The study reports the results of the exploration of a machine-readable corpus of Brazilian Portuguese. The corpus was collected from news distributed on the Internet. The news items themselves consisted of excerpts from newspaper stories and TV transcripts. The focus of the paper is on the descripti...

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Main Author: A. P. BERBER SARDINHA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 1999-01-01
Series:DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44501999000200003&tlng=en