11.2683, Qs: Recognizing Collocations, Secondary Predicates

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-11-2683. Mon Dec 11 2000. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 11.2683, Qs: Recognizing Collocations, Secondary Predicates

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Date:  Mon, 11 Dec 2000 03:16:40 EST
From:  CallMeSal at aol.com
Subject:  Computer program for recognizing collocations

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Date:  Mon, 11 Dec 2000 20:52:36 +0900
From:  "satoe nakai" <Satoe.Nakai at mb7.seikyou.ne.jp>
Subject:  Acquisition of secondary predicates

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Date:  Mon, 11 Dec 2000 03:16:40 EST
From:  CallMeSal at aol.com
Subject:  Computer program for recognizing collocations

Hi, everyone.  Happy Holidays.

I'm a doctoral candidate at University of Pacific in California, researching
collocations, or the tendency of words to co-occur in text.  Just as an
example, second language students might use expressions in writing such as
"the economy went down," not knowing common collocations for "economy" such
as "collapsed." I believe that academic disciplines have such particular
phrases that they use over and over, and then individual speakers have their
own preferred phrases.
    I wonder if anyone could recommend a computer program that will recognize
such phrases,  words that consistently occur together within a given text,
perhaps with a notation of frequency? If anyone could give me any pointers,
I'd greatly appreciate it.  Thank you very much.
Yours,
Stacia Levy
CallMeSal at aol.com
University of Pacific, California USA


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Date:  Mon, 11 Dec 2000 20:52:36 +0900
From:  "satoe nakai" <Satoe.Nakai at mb7.seikyou.ne.jp>
Subject:  Acquisition of secondary predicates

Dear linguists
I am a graduate school student in Japan.
And I am writing a paper about  acquisition of secondary predicates.
As you know,  secondary predicates can be divided into two types;
resultatives and depictives.  I would like to know which is acquired first.
If you know some papers (or information) about this subject, please teach
me.
Though I am interested in the acquisition of secondary predicates by second
language (L2) learner,  I would be glad if I can get the information about
the acquisiton by first language (L1) learner.
Yours sincerely


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