Write True or False, Correcting the False Statements:

1. Linguistic data are always multilingual. ________
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2. Annotation of a corpus refers to word tagging only. ________
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3. The relationship between computational work and linguistic research is a one way type of relationship. ________
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4. Synonymy is a feature that applies to structures as well as to words. ________
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5. To select words for inclusion in a dictionary all we need is the word count.
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6. Concordances may be sorted according to the key word in the con**************** only.
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7. In building corpora, the most important feature in a good corpus is size. ________
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8. Type/ token ratio in a **************** measures its richness. ________
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9. After annotating a corpus the 'raw' corpus can be discarded. ________
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10. Homographs represent typical problems for automatic tagging of words in English. ________
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11. Issues like morphemic and lexemic interpretations reflect the integrated nature of linguistic data. ________
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12. The definition of nouns and verbs presents problems in the study of the distribution of grammatical categories. ________
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13. Corpus linguistic research is concerned only with linguistic-linguistic (e.g. grammatical-lexical) associations. ________
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14. Discourse characteristics are the most amenable to automatic analysis. ________
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15. Markup is used to identify specific areas of **************** to be analyzed. ________
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16. SGML is a type of software for linguistic data analysis. ________
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17. In a right-sorted concordance the entries for each headword are given according to the word that precedes it. ________
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18. Traditional linguistic analysis has emphasized use and functions. ________
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19. Despite the contributions of corpus linguistics, studies of language acquisition are based on a small number of learners. ________
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20. Corpus linguistic research has proven that the average distance between pronouns and the noun phrases they refer to is shorter in speech than in writing. ________
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(20 marks)
II. Answer FOUR of the following questions:

1. Discuss the major problems in computational analysis of discourse. How are they solved in corpus linguistics?
2. Give a brief history of developments in corpus linguistics, indicating factors that have contributed to the great increase in the size of recently compiled corpora.
3. Briefly discuss the major uses of computers for lexicographers in the two main phases of preliminary research and the actual compilation of a dictionary.
4. In **************** processing, there are different modes of man-machine interaction. What are they? Explain, with illustrative examples.
5. Discuss three examples of research in discourse analysis which can benefit from corpus linguistics.
6. Discuss uses of computers in the field of applied linguistics (other than statistical analysis). Examples are error analysis, language testing and language teaching…etc