[Corpora-List] Wordsmith concordance

[Ramesh Krishnamurthy]

Dear Anne

I too suspect that a technical problem in text selection or tags/tabs
is the most likely cause.
But if these are not involved, check the concordance again. Are the lines
exact duplicates? If not, it could be genuine repetition (especially in spoken 
texts). Lexical repetition is an under-reported linguistic phenomenon, but is 
frequently noticed in corpus collocation studies.

Ramesh

Ramesh Krishnamurthy
Hon. Res. Fellow, Univ. of Birmingham
Consultant, Cobuild and Bank of English Corpus

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Does anyone else get a lot of duplicated entries when doing a
concordance in Wordsmith?

Not sure if this is a bug or we are doing something wrong...


Anne Harrap
Languages Centre Documentalist
School of Languages
Oxford Brookes University
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