corpus analysis

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Research into how language is used and has evolved often invovles a large set of texts (the corpus) that is analysed using computers that can count instances, calculate correlations (the degree to which one word or phrase  is used in close association with another), etcetera.

Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.