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<div>In response to Ross Clark's note, there is at least one
electronic corpus of Samoan with frequency analysis. This was
compiled by Galumalemana Alfred Hunkin for his 2001 MA thesis:<i> A
Corpus of Contemporary Colloquial Samoan</i>, in the School of
Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Victoria University of
Wellington. The corpus consists of about 300,000 words, made up
of 300 samples spoken and written Samoan. Mr Hunkin
<Alfred.Hunkin@vuw.ac.nz> teaches Samoan at Victoria U.
Wellington.</div>
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<div>Andy Pawley</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Someone asked me whether there are word
frequency statistics available for<br>
Samoan, such as exist for English and other big languages. I think
probably<br>
not, and further it occurred to me that such statistics depend on a
corpus<br>
of the language in question -- nowadays assumed to be
computer-searchable.<br>
Corpus linguistics seems to be pretty trendy in English right now. But
I<br>
wonder whether there are comparable bodies of text for any
Austronesian<br>
languages? At one time the Maori Studies people here had at least
the<br>
beginnings of one, and I believe the Maori Newspapers project aims<br>
eventually to have a searchable online corpus. Any other news?<br>
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Ross Clark<br>
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