Corpora in Applied Linguistics

By S. Hunston. 2002

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Citations in the corpus

The Qualitas Corpus: A Curated Collection of Java Code for Empirical Studies (2010, background): “Hunston observes that there are limitations on the use of corpora [2].”
The PHaVE List: A pedagogical list of phrasal verbs and their most frequent meaning senses (2015, background): “In addition, actual frequency of occurrence is a more reliable indicator of usefulness than pure intuition (Hunston, 2002; Schmitt, 2010).”
Is There an "Academic Vocabulary"? (2007, neutral): “Hunston, S. (2002). Corpora in applied linguistics.”
Using Language Corpora in Initial Teacher Education: Pedagogic Issues and Practical Applications (2003, methodology): “…and examples of corpus design see: Sinclair, 1991; Thomas & Short, 1996; Biber et al., 1998; McCarthy, 1998; Biber et al., 1999; Coxhead, 2000; Hunston, 2002) In very general terms we adhere to the following guidelines: for spoken corpora anything over one million words is considered to be…”
Perspectives on Technology in Learning and Teaching Languages (2006, background): “A number of books on corpus linguistics have appeared recently (e.g., Granger, 1998; Granger & Petch-Tyson, 2003; Hunston, 2002; Partington, 1998), and a special issue of Language Learning & Technology (Tribble & Barlow, 2 These categories are not, of course, mutually exclusive.”
Examining second language receptive knowledge of collocation and factors that affect learning (2017, background): “A mutual information score of 3.00 is considered to be the threshold where two words are a collocation (Church & Hanks, 1990; Hunston, 2002).”
Mining large corpora for social information: The case of elderly (2007, methodology): “Material from the Bank of English reproduced with the kind permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. 1 In studies using the Bank of English, the cutoff point above which t-scores are assumed to signal statistical significance is reported to be 2 (Hunston 2002:72).”
The Effects of Vocabulary Learning on Collocation and Meaning. (2009, methodology): “For the purpose of this study, collocation will be defined from a statistical (Greenbaum, 1974; Hunston, 2002; Partington, 1998; Sinclair, 1991) rather”
INCIDENTAL VOCABULARY LEARNING THROUGH LISTENING TO SONGS (2019, background): “A MI score above 3 indicates that the two words that make up the collocation are highly related (Hunston, 2002).”