Corpora: grammar of English letter-sequences

[Michael Rundell]

Not sure if this helps, but I remember Paul Meara devised some
vocabulary-size tests for assessing ESL students. Students had to say which
words they recognized: some of these were not "real" English words -  but
they had to look as if they might be. so to achieve this effect, Paul must
have had some data on what were and were not plausible letter-sequences.

I'm afraid i don't have an up to date contact address for PM though

best - Michael Rundell

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoffrey Sampson <geoffs at cogs.susx.ac.uk>
To: corpora at hd.uib.no <corpora at hd.uib.no>
Cc: malcolm at cogs.susx.ac.uk <malcolm at cogs.susx.ac.uk>
Date: 04 May 2000 10:06
Subject: Corpora: grammar of English letter-sequences


>
>Does anyone know of anything like a grammar of English letter-sequences --
>a system which generates the range of character-sequences which could
>plausibly occur as words of English, and a subset of which actually do?
>
>
>Prof. Geoffrey Sampson
>
>School of Cognitive & Computing Sciences
>University of Sussex
>Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, GB
>
>e-mail geoffs at cogs.susx.ac.uk
>tel. +44 1273 678525
>fax  +44 1273 671320
>Web site http://www.grs.u-net.com
>