[Corpora-List] Nine questions regarding psycholinguistics -answer to Stephen

[Marc Kupietz]

Dear Linda,

> Lastly, you are also correct  in that the specific terms that I
> queried have nothing to do with corpus or computational linguistics.
> They have everything to do, however,  with  recent research in
> psycholinguistics dealing with  frequency, collocations, and discourse
> level priming experiments; i.e. terms that are  corpus linguistic in
> nature. 

this really is a good point and makes your initial questions look like a
test (in a positive sense) whether we (corpus linguists) are aware of
our potentials and our responsibilities in research fields beyond the
corpus and besides "linguistic structure".

Best,
 Marc
> 
> "Stefan Th. Gries" <stgries at gmail.com> wrote: 
>         Dear Linda
>         
>         You could have found answers to many of these questions (BTW:
>         questions 1 and 4 are identical) by simply googling the key
>         words:
>         Googling
>         
>         - "masked priming" gives you
>         as first hit;
>         - "N400" gives you the Wikipedia page at ;
>         - "principal component analysis?" gives you the Wikipedia page
>         at
>         as the
>         first hit, and you can also look at
>         .
>         
>         However, I fail to see why questions like these get sent to a
>         corpus
>         linguistics list. Many of the terms such as priming,
>         event-related
>         potentials, etc. are hardly corpus or computational linguistic
>         in
>         nature.
>         
>         Sincerely,
>         STG
>         -- 
>         Stefan Th. Gries
>         -----------------------------------------------
>         University of California, Santa Barbara
>         http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries
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