first calculated subtitle frequencies, we did not expect them to do particularly well, because criticisms can be raised against films as a representative source of language (they often depict American situations, are biased towards certain topics such as police investigations, do not include everything that is said, the language is not completely spontaneous, etc).
First, adjustments to English words such as 'vigorous' and 'moderate' activity, which can be misunderstood and not associated with PA behaviours in Nigeria, were replaced with words that are more representative of the language used in Nigeria, such as 'very hard' and 'hard', respectively.
Just as a central issue concerning acceptability judgment data concerns its reliability as evidence for empirical generalizations about languages or idiolects, a central question concerning the collection of corpus data concerns whether or not it is representative of the language variety it purports to represent.
In spite of these constrains, we believe our data set is still representative of the languages covered in systemic language description and our findings should be considered in light of the limitations indicated here.
Of course the first O.E.D. was skewed in its choices, reflecting few writers of the 18th century, and offering a selection not fully representative of the language's powers.
One important consideration in language typology is a representative sample of languages.
It is representative of modern chemical language (recent papers) for a range of central chemical disciplines.
Hence, the sample could be a better representative of the English language learners, from low- proficient learners to high proficient ones.
However, Sproat (2007) believes that the results from the frequency distributions are nothing more than an effect of Zipf's Law, and furthermore that neither rongorongo nor the old texts were representative of the Rapanui language, so that a comparison between them is unlikely to be enlightening.
The most important representative of the Yue languages is Standard Cantonese of Canton, Hong Kong, and Macau.
Suzhou vernacular is usually quoted as representative of the Wu languages.
