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| | A Crash Course in Corpus Linguistics |
 | | Corpus linguistics methods are ideal for research on registers and register differences, because in order to establish similarities and/or differences between registers huge amount of texts are needed. |
 | | The Brown corpus is approximately 1,2 million words, containing texts from at least 15 written registers within the Humanities, such as belle lettres, reports, fiction, biography, popular culture, etc. It exists, and can be accessed, as a text file, and can thus be used for lexicographic research. |
 | | The TIMIT corpus is a corpus of recorded speech, containing 6,300 sentences, recorded from male and female speakers of eight dialects of American English. |
| www.ling.unt.edu /corpus.html (3390 words) |
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