<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face=Verdana>Dear Stephen,<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face=Verdana>First, let me apologize to everyone for having typed one question twice; an oversight on my part, and thank you, Stephen, for the URLS (btw-I didn't ask about N400 but it's appreciated).</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face=Verdana></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE:
11pt"><FONT face=Verdana>Second, you make a very good point regarding the use of the Internet for finding answers to questions. I did try this in the beginning (though not with all those listed in my e-mail). By way of explanation, sometimes typing in the key words returned an incredible number of hits with literature where the term is mentioned but not defined nor used in context in a way I understood. So I will confess here to a certain impatience on my part as I did not have the time to read all of them in hopes that one would give me the kind of definition or explanation that I could understand. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Third</SPAN>, although I have used Wikipedia, I prefer not to use it with regard to my research as I don’t<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>know who the information is coming from and thus how accurate I might expect it to be, especially if it is outside my area of knowledge. Incidentally,
using Wikipedia does not guarantee that the information will be understood by a novice in the field.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face=Verdana>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 <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>frequency, collocations, and discourse level priming experiments; i.e. terms that are corpus linguistic in nature. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV
class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face=Verdana>Kindest regards,<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face=Verdana>Linda<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR><BR><B><I>"Stefan Th. Gries" <stgries@gmail.com></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Dear Linda<BR><BR>You could have found answers to many of these questions (BTW:<BR>questions 1 and 4 are identical) by simply googling the key words:<BR>Googling<BR><BR>- "masked priming" gives you<BR><HTTP: index.htm priming %7Ekforster www.u.arizona.edu>as first hit;<BR>- "N400" gives you the Wikipedia page at <HTTP: N400 wiki en.wikipedia.org>;<BR>- "principal component analysis?" gives you the Wikipedia page at<BR><HTTP: wiki
en.wikipedia.org Principal_components_analysis>as the<BR>first hit, and you can also look at<BR><HTTP: stathome.html?stfacan.html&1 textbook www.statsoft.com>.<BR><BR>However, I fail to see why questions like these get sent to a corpus<BR>linguistics list. Many of the terms such as priming, event-related<BR>potentials, etc. are hardly corpus or computational linguistic in<BR>nature.<BR><BR>Sincerely,<BR>STG<BR>-- <BR>Stefan Th. Gries<BR>-----------------------------------------------<BR>University of California, Santa Barbara<BR>http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries<BR>-----------------------------------------------<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Corpora mailing list<BR>Corpora@uib.no<BR>http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><BR><DIV id=RTEContent> <DIV id=RTEContent> <DIV> <DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #d0d0d0"><FONT color=#0000bf>"</FONT><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=#0000bf><STRONG><EM><FONT
color=#0000bf>Any</FONT> man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind."</EM></STRONG> <STRONG>John Donne</STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>