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The Gaelic scholar J. F. Campbell, writing in 1883 on the flyleaf of a copy now in the National Library of Scotland, was convinced: "A sample of language which I believe to be genuine".
"When you find something so similar, you need to ask yourself, 'How rare is this thing you're looking at?' " By analyzing the contents of a 100-million-word corpus (sample of language), Mr. Olsson determined that both phrases were extremely rare in normal use — the phrase "sort my life out," for instance, appeared only once in the 100-million-word sample.
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The findings are suggestive, but they need to be tested against a much larger sample of languages.
One important consideration in language typology is a representative sample of languages.
Against all expectations, Davis coaxes idiosyncrasies of personality and society from a dry subject, but ultimately the writer's intelligence and expertise are more memorable than the character studies conducted through laboratory samples of language.
The compilation of a real corpus must be done in an objective way to extract samples of language used in an everyday context and with the minimum interference.
Some linguists make the criterion of representativeness definitional: they call a collection of samples of language use a corpus only if it has been carefully balanced between different genres (conversation, informal writing, journalism, literature, etc)., regional varieties, or whatever.
Of the 15 included papers, nine used a sample of physiotherapists, two used a mixed sample of physiotherapists and occupational therapists, two used a sample of occupational therapists, one used a sample of speech and language therapists, and one used a mixed sample of occupational therapists and speech and language therapists.
In terms of typology, both frameworks emphasise empirical typology based on large samples of languages; qualitative and quantitative analysis of texts from comparable registers across languages; and the importance of grammaticalisation in the study of languages (Teruya and Matthiessen 2015).
To ensure that a SCFG gets consistent, one can for example assign relative frequencies to the productions, which are computed by counting the production rules used in the leftmost derivations of a finite sample of words from the generated language.
A sample of spontaneous language was obtained from each child.
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