18.3095, Qs: Corpus of Clipped Forms

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Subject: 18.3095, Qs: Corpus of Clipped Forms

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Date: 23-Oct-2007
From: Denis Jamet < djamet at univ-lyon3.fr >
Subject: Corpus of Clipped Forms

 

	
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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:02:26
From: Denis Jamet [djamet at univ-lyon3.fr]
Subject: Corpus of Clipped Forms
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Dear Linguists,

I am looking for a list of clipped forms in English (such as VET for
VETERINARY SURGEON, PHONE for TELEPHONE, COMBO for COMBINATION, etc.) to
carry out a statistical study concerning the frequency of use of the
clipped forms and the ''original'' forms.

Has anyone heard of such a list or of such a corpus?

Thanks a lot.

Best regards,

Denis Jamet
University of Lyon (France) 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics





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