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Brigham Young Corpora

Postby mcthulhu » Thu Jun 29, 2017 1:00 am

The Translation Tribulations blog recommended http://corpus.byu.edu/, which has large research corpora in several languages. As the blog's author puts it:

"One great benefit of using such corpora as a language learner, is that context and collocations (words that occur together with a particular word or phrase) can be studied easily, better than with dictionaries, enabling one to sound a bit less like an idiot in a second, third, fourth or fifth language. Or for many perhaps, even their first language :-)"
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Postby aokoye » Thu Jun 29, 2017 6:00 am

COCA is one of the largest free American English language corpora available.
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Postby Cainntear » Fri Jun 30, 2017 5:12 pm

aokoye wrote:COCA is one of the largest free American English language corpora available.

And as it's constantly updated, it's so far ahead of any other corpus in the world that even some of us from the other side of the Atlantic refer to it frequently. (I used it to analyse a text for one of my assignments in the first semester.)
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