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Corpus Linguistics (10906) – Assignment 7 Part I: Reading Read and answer (no more than 2 sentences for each answer) Huang, Lan-fen. “A corpus-based exploration of the discourse marker well in spoken interlanguage.” Language and Speech 62, no. 3 (2019): 570-593.) 1. What is the main research hypothesis? 2. What is the aspect of this… Continue reading Corpus Linguistics (10906) – Assignment 7
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Corpus Linguistics Research Proposal Write a 3-page research proposal based on the course discussion attached below – with the following aspects written separately: • Object of Study • Study Objectives • Scope of the study

Epistemic Modals: We discussed epistemic modality and how it fits with the centered-worlds quantification treatment of attitude predicates. As a reminder, please explain in your own words what the difference is between the interpretation of the models in the following two sentences and what this difference is due to. (5) a. Gali might be happy.… Continue reading Epistemic Modals:
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1) Summarize in 2-3 paragraphs the central question the film (Guns Germs And Steel) addresses. 2) What predictors of the geographic distribution of ethnic groups are mentioned in the film? Specifically, what claims are made about the east-west versus north-south expansions? 3) Make an educated guess in what contexts Diamond’s hypothesis of geographic determinism figures… Continue reading 1) Summarize in 2-3 paragraphs the central question the film (Guns Germs And Ste

Format: Papers must be at least double-spaced and max 4-5 pages in length. It must have a title, your name, page numbering, and consistent use of citations/references. Proofreading for grammatical errors is expected and plays a role in the evaluation of papers. Make sure that your paper is in the form of an essay with… Continue reading Format: Papers must be at least double-spaced and max 4-5 pages in length. It mu

This assignment requires a basic familiarity with such notions as sample, statistical population, and variable. If they are unfamiliar to you, read a short summary in the attached file BasicConcepts.pdf Read section 3.2 on “Hypotheses and operationalization”, attached as well, from Gries’s (2013) chapter 1. (The file also contains sections 2 and 3.1 of the… Continue reading This assignment requires a basic familiarity with such notions as sample, statis

Please use the attached document to answer the following instructions in order to write this assignment: What did the researchers want to find out? What was the research question? What did the researchers do to address their research question? What was the method that they used? Describe the method in detail. Include: Participants, Materials, Procedure,… Continue reading Please use the attached document to answer the following instructions in order t

Read the short article by Bickel & Nichols (2006) Oceania, the Pacific Rim, and the theory of linguistic areas. Answer the following questions. 1) What problems are presented by variable-defined areas according to the article? Does this criticism apply to “your” adopted area and the procedures implemented by the authors who worked on “your” area?… Continue reading Read the short article by Bickel & Nichols (2006) Oceania, the Pacific Rim, and

Prepare a 1-2 page summary of the article. Include the complete reference to the article. Briefly describe and illustrate the linguistic phenomenon at hand. Include the information about the research question, the corpus used in the study, and the type of annotation(s). Many articles use advanced statistical techniques, you are not expected to understand the… Continue reading Prepare a 1-2 page summary of the article.
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Consider the following constituents: [incerdibly full of cucumber juice from that store] [accidentally stomped on his fruitloops with his winter boots] [The intense rain pelted the cracked windshield.] Draw the syntactic tree of the three sentences