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Supporting the corpus-based study of Shakespeare’s language: Enhancing a corpus of the First Folio 支持基于语料库的莎士比亚语言研究:加强《第一对开本》的语料库

ICAME journal : computers in English linguistics Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.2478/icame-2021-0002

Jonathan Culpeper, A. Hardie, J. Demmen, Jennifer Hughes, Matt Timperley

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引用次数: 3

Better data for more researchers – using the audio features of BNCweb 为更多的研究人员提供更好的数据——利用BNCweb的音频功能

ICAME journal : computers in English linguistics Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.2478/icame-2021-0004

S. Hoffmann, Sabine Arndt-Lappe

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引用次数: 4

Comparing written Indian Englishes with the new Corpus of Regional Indian Newspaper Englishes (CORINNE) 印度书面英语与新印度地区报纸英语语料库的比较

ICAME journal : computers in English linguistics Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.2478/icame-2021-0006

Asya Yurchenko, S. Leuckert, C. Lange

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引用次数: 1

Evidentiality in gendered styles in spoken English 英语口语中性别风格的证据性

ICAME journal : computers in English linguistics Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.2478/icame-2020-0001

E. Söderqvist

引用次数: 5

Corpus linguistics and the description of English 语料库语言学与英语描述

ICAME journal : computers in English linguistics Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.2478/icame-2020-0006

Stefan Diemer

引用次数: 0

Applications of pattern-driven methods in corpus linguistics 模式驱动方法在语料库语言学中的应用

ICAME journal : computers in English linguistics Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.2478/icame-2020-0005

C. Geisler

引用次数: 0

Corpus linguistics and African Englishes 语料库语言学与非洲英语

ICAME journal : computers in English linguistics Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.2478/icame-2020-0004

Frederic Zähres

引用次数: 1

Issues and challenges in compiling a corpus of Early Modern English plays for comparison with those of William Shakespeare 编纂早期现代英语戏剧语料库以与莎士比亚戏剧进行比较的问题和挑战

ICAME journal : computers in English linguistics Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.2478/icame-2020-0002

J. Demmen

引用次数: 8

There’s more to alternations than the main diagonal of a 2×2 confusion matrix: Improvements of MuPDAR and other classificatory alternation studies 除了2×2混淆矩阵的主对角线之外，还有更多关于交替的内容:MuPDAR和其他分类交替研究的改进

ICAME journal : computers in English linguistics Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.2478/icame-2020-0003

S. Gries, Santa Barbara, J. Liebig, Sandra C. Deshors

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引用次数: 3

Early Modern Multiloquent Authors (EMMA): Designing a large-scale corpus of individuals’ languages 早期现代多语作者(EMMA):设计一个大规模的个人语言语料库

ICAME journal : computers in English linguistics Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.2478/icame-2019-0004

P. Petré, Lynn Anthonissen, Sara Budts, Enrique Manjavacas, Emma-Louise Silva, William H. Standing, Odile A. O. Strik

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引用次数: 21