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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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application, there should be a way of breaking down the long sentences into
manageable units.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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corpora-bounces@uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Adam Kilgarriff<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 27 June 2008 16:05<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Alex Boulton<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">corpora@hd.uib.no</st1:PersonName>;
Scott Songlin Piao<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Corpora-List] max
sentence legnths</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>seeing it's Friday afternoon - my favourite longest sentence came from
Vicki Fromkin on the Linguist list (I hope she doesn't mind) -<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Becoming a linguist -- I am sure there are as many reasons as
there<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>are linguists or more. Me? 17 years after my BA, tired of
being<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>a diletant and having felt betrayed by the revolution and also guilty
about<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>giving the president of my son's PTA a headache every time I raised my<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>hand (or so it was reported to me) I decided I really wanted to go back<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>to school but didn't want to do more economics (my BA) and one evening<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>at dinner in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:place></st1:City>
at a friends where I met Harvey Pitkin who<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>was working on Wintu (and his PhD at <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Berkeley</st1:place></st1:City>) I moaned that I didn't<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>know what I wanted to be when I grew up and he said You should be a
linguist<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>and I said I couldn't even speak English and he said that doesn't
matter<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>if I liked to do cross word puzzles and made up secret languages when I
wa<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>was a little girl and then he talked about phonemes and morphemes and<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>American Indian languages and we finished a bottle of Brandy and I<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>decided, why not? so I applied to the Linguistic Dept at ucla and was<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>sure they would reject me not knowing any linguistics and having only<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>A's and F's on my undergraduate transcript and low and behold they said
yes<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>which I am sure was a mistake but that was 1961 and in 1962 I entered
th<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>graduate program and in 1965 got a PhD and will be eternally grateful
to<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Harvey</span></font></st1:place></st1:City>
and brandy and ucla and all this is to show how there is no longest<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>sentence. Vicki Fromkin<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>(found at <a
href="http://www.umich.edu/~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.3/no.401-450">http://www.umich.edu/~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.3/no.401-450</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>have good weekend<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>adam<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>...and a sentence in Joyce's Ulysses that's over 30 pages long! But
that's stream of consciousness, as people tend not to think in sentences...<br>
alex<br>
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Anil Singh a écrit : <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I had come across one
sentence in the English translation of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel
Garcia Marquez that was at least one and a half pages long.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Scott Songlin Piao <<a
href="mailto:scott.piao@manchester.ac.uk" target="_blank">scott.piao@manchester.ac.uk</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hi,<br>
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Does anyone have the information about the maximum English sentence lengths in
the main genres, such as news reports, academic writings, speeches etc, ideally
with publication references?<br>
<br>
With best regards<br>
<br>
Scott Piao<br>
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<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Manchester</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place><br>
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Email: <a href="mailto:scott.piao@manchester.ac.uk" target="_blank">scott.piao@manchester.ac.uk</a><br>
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