Abstract The congruency effect—that is, faster and more accurate processing of congruent multiword units, has been demonstrated in multiple studies. It is still unclear, however, what its underlying mechanism how may interact with other factors. Using an acceptability judgement task, this study examined the effect immersive (Experiment 1) nonimmersive 2) L2 learners’ collocational while taking ...

test the hypothesis that words which are similar in meaning occur in similar contexts, this being a corollary of the initial hypothesis that the meaning of a word is defined by the collocational company which it keeps. This similarity is measured by creating 'collocational profiles'-summaries of the words typically occurring in the context of a given word-for each unique word form (type) in a l...

This paper presents the results of a preliminary investigation into the use of statistical collocation as a method for discovering characteristic properties of grammatical classes (i.e. part-of-speech categories such as noun, adjective, verb, and so on). In particular, the focus of the current investigation is the collocational patterns found around adpositions in English and Nepali. The claim ...

Park, Sohee. 2003. Lexical Collocation Use by Korean EFL College learners. SNU Working Papers in English Linguistics and Language 2, 19-40. This study investigated Korean EFL college students' lexical collocation use. The specific research questions were as follows: 1) Which factors affect the collocational competence?; 2) Which collocation types are the most problematic to Korean EFL college l...

In this paper we outline a research program for computational linguistics, making extensive use of text corpora. We demonstrate how a semantic framework for lexical knowledge can suggest richer relationships among words in text beyond that of simple co-occurrence. The work suggests how linguistic phenomena such as metonymy and polysemy might be exploitable for semantic tagging of lexical items....

This study investigates the often subtle and at times blatant presence of misogynistic language in our daily lives. queried News on Web (NOW) corpus to conduct an appraisal collocational behavior lemmas woman man. Furthermore, by using network graphs, we expand analysis collocations beyond traditional approaches which helped provide lexical evidence stereotypical constructions. work also intend...

In this paper, I examine the representation of men and women in the British National Corpus (BNC) by focussing on the collocational and grammatical behaviour of the noun lemmas MAN and WOMAN (i.e., the nouns man/men and woman/women). Using Sketch Engine (a powerful corpus query tool, which is described) I explore the functional distribution of the target lemmas, and reveal the structured and sy...

This paper sets forth the argument for revisiting fixed phrases in the light of the knowledge that their fixedness is not necessarily something to be taken for granted. It focuses on the location and analysis of variant forms in general reference corpora. Existing phraseological structures, including collocational frameworks, idiom schemas and semi-prepackaged phrases, are introduced by way of ...

This paper presents a statistical decision procedure for lexical ambiguity resolution. The algorithm exploits both local syntactic patterns and more distant collocational evidence, generating an efficient, effective, and highly perspicuous recipe for resolving a given ambiguity. By identifying and utilizing only the single best disambiguating evidence in a target context, the algorithm avoids t...