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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27/01/2014 01:33, Angus Grieve-Smith
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Right. Here's what I don't get: Why hasn't anyone followed
even a single speaker around, let alone a representative sample,
to see what proportion of registers and genres they're exposed to
on a daily basis? Or has this been done?<br>
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I think the Czech National Corpus people did (something like) that
for both written and spoken Czech, in order to help them build up
their corpus. Anyone from Prague able to confirm that?<br>
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Cheers -- Mike<br>
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