Corpus-based exploration of linking adverbials of result: discovering what ELT writing coursebooks lack by Supakorn Phoocharoensil

“…The purpose of this study was to examine four linking adverbials (LAs) of result, which are THUS, THEREFORE, HENCE, and SO, in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), focusing on written academic English. …”
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Semantic preference, prosody and distribution of synonymous adjectives in COCA by Selmistraitis, Linas

“…The current study examined the concordance lines with synonymous adjectives succinct & concise, coherent & cohesive, precise & accurate in the academic texts of Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and identified semantics of co-occurring collocates, interchangeability of synonyms and their distribution across nine academic disciplines. …”
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Is there conflation? An acoustic analysis of vowels in Japanese English by Yamaguchi, Toshiko, Chiew, Poh Shin

“…Statistical test results showed no significant difference between the pronunciation of the open-mid vowel [ʌ] produced by JE speakers and an American English speaker. © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.…”

Corpus linguistics and metaoperational grammar to the teaching of grammatical cohesion by Kouakou Yannick KONDRO

“…Utterances are extracted from online sources, like Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and British National Corpus (BNC) in order to take advantage of this revolutionary approach to data collection (Corpus Linguistics), not yet widely applied in Côte d’Ivoire. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Communicative Values in Phraseology on the Material of the English, German and Russian Languages by Seda M. Yusupova

“…The syntax and semantic properties of idioms are analyzed in the contexts of use, obtained from the British National Corpus, Corpus of Contemporary American English, Corpus of the Institute of the German Language in Mannheim, the National Russian Language Corpus, the correlation of the dictionary and actual meanings of fixed expressions, the specificity of communicative values in different cultures and ways of their conceptualization are revealed. …”
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The verb chr(38)quot;to attendchr(38)quot; and its different meanings = O verbo chr(38)quot;to attendchr(38)quot; e seus diferentes significados by Marques, Giuliana de Abreu Freitas, Moraes, Michele

“…Esta é uma pesquisa baseada nos pressupostos da linguística de corpus, através do Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), que traz amostras naturais do idioma em análise. …”
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Inferring cultural models from corpus data: Force-dynamic cultural models reflected in the discursive behavior of a scalar adjectival construction by Kim Ebensgaard Jensen

“…Exploring the usability of corpus data and methodology in the observation of constructional discursive behavior, the present paper offers a covarying collexeme analysis of the [too ADJ to V]-construction in the Corpus of Contemporary American English. The purpose is to discover the extent to which its force-dynamic constructional semantics interacts with cultural models. …”
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THE INFLUENCE OF STUDENTS' L1 AND SPOKEN ENGLISH IN ENGLISH WRITING: A CORPUS-BASED RESEARCH by Prihantoro Prihantoro

“…Corpus of Contemporary American English and British National Corpus are also used as reference corpora for English while the SEAlang Indonesian Corpus is used to validate the influence of first language (L1). …”
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On the Special Case of the Definiteness Effect: Conditions for the Admission of the Quantifier “every” into the Post-Copular Nominal Group of the English Existential Construction... by O. V. Dolmatova

“…The sample included 626 examples of the breaking of the definiteness effect extracted from the British national corpus and the corpus of contemporary American English. It is stated that the quantifier “every” has specific conditions in this construction, subject to the principle of exhaustion of a set common to universal quantifiers. …”
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Stretching One’s Legs: Free Word-Groups vs Idioms by P.S. Dronov

“…Using the Russian National Corpus, the Corpus of Contemporary American English, and British National Corpora, the author has studied the idiom modifications, variations of their figurative meanings, as well as has raised the question of cultural specificity regarding the choice of their underlying metaphors. …”
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Vocabulary of L1 and L2 Graduation Theses Written by English Philology Students: Academic Writing of Montenegrin and US Students Compared by Milica Vuković Stamatović, Vesna Bratić, Igor Lakić

“… The paper explores the lexical profile of graduation theses written by the students at the University of Montenegro and compares it against that of BA theses authored by native speakers of American English. We study their lexical level (LFP method), lexical variation (sTTR method), and share of academic vocabulary according to the New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan and Philliphs). …”
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Linguistic Transculturation in Raya and The Last Dragon Movie by Ratri Harida, Phoutsavad Vongphachan, Tomy Kartika Putra, Adip Arifin

“…The semantic-linguistic transculturation within the movie was shown in 1) the names of the characters, 2) the use of mantra or magical chant, and 3) the use of American English informal contraction, slang, portmanteau, and compound words. …”
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Discourse markers in TV interviews: A corpus-based comparative study of Chinese and the western media by Yanli Fu, Victor Ho

“…Four co-occurring strings (“and so,” “and but,” “so but,” “but so”) are identified in the three corpora with the DM co-occurrence “and so” having the highest frequency in the American program, supporting the claim that this combination is a typical use in American English. The general positional distribution of the three DMs is similar with the highest tendency in the initial position, which can be attributed to the program’s interactivity. …”
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The Effect of Ethnicity on Identification of Korean American Speech by Andrew Cheng, Steve Cho

“…Research on ethnic varieties of American English has found that listeners can identify speaker ethnicity from voice alone at above-chance rates. …”
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English variations in ELT: A case of rural schools in North Kalimantan, Indonesia by Aries Utomo

“…Based on the findings, it was found that (1) American English is mostly known among students to speak, and (2) English teachers endorse several kinds of English variations to students. …”
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Secured wired BPL voice transmission system by Grzegorz Debita, Przemysław Falkowski-Gilski, Marcin Habrych, Bogdan Miedziński, Jan Wandzio, Przemysław Jedlikowski

“…It involved a two-way transmission of speech samples in American English and Polish. The efficiency of the designed solution was evaluated in the subjective study on a group of 15 people.…”
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Salience factors determining natural metonymic clippings illustrated through the medical lexicon by Antonio Barcelona Sánchez

“…Two well-known inventories of American English medical abbreviations are then analyzed with the goal of identifying natural metonymic clippings in this register, noting their scarcity. …”
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Five crew, how many clergy : pourquoi certains noms collectifs peuvent-ils servir à nommer des membres ? by Laure Gardelle

“…The paper first describes the data from two corpora of American English. It then shows that these uses are not collective: what the noun denotes is members of a class (e.g. for crew, of a professional category), and at the same time, the fact that these members are typically construed as part of a group. …”
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On English proverb variation from the perspective of linguistic creativity by Jianhao Wu, Wanting Zhou, Bin Shao

“…Using the data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA corpus), this study attempts to present varieties of the English proverb “There are two sides to every coin” and explain the variations from the perspective of linguistic creativity. …”
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Ensuring Cultural and Cognitive Integrity in Instrument Translation: Quality of Life Index for Japanese Cancer Patients by Michiyo Mizuno, Keiko Sugimoto, Thomas Mayers, Carol Estwing Ferrans

“…Methods: We present the process used to create the Japanese version of a well-established quality of life (QOL) instrument, originally developed in American English. The Ferrans and Powers Quality of Life Index (QLI)-Cancer Version III was translated into Japanese by a team of bilingual translators and tested using an iterative process involving cognitive interviewing with monolingual Japanese cancer patients. …”
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