Use of the Chi-Squared Test to Examine Vocabulary Differences in English Language Corpora Representing Seven Different Countries.

The chi-squared test is used to find the vocabulary most typical of seven different ICAME corpora, each representing the English used in a particular country. In a closely related study, Leech and Fallon (1992, Computer corpora — what do they tell us about culture? ICAME Journal, 16: 29-50) found di...

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Publicado en:Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 85 - 100
Autores principales: Oakes, Michael P., Farrow, Malcolm
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Apr2007
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