Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1996. Vol. 1. Eger Journal of English Studies.(Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 24)

Ramesh Krishnamurthy: Change and continuity at COBUILD (1986-1996)

jewish 8 4.000000 element 8 4.000000 discontinuity 7 4.000000 care 19 3.937419 in 234 3.824960 There are 1222 occurrences of continuity in the 211 million word corpus, and the list tells us that 678 of the 1222 occurrences have 'of' within four words of 'continuity', 451 have 'and' within four words, 54 have 'sense' within four words, and so on (see the second column). The third column is a statistic called 'T-score', which takes into account the corpus frequencies of 'continuity' and 'of and indicates the statistical significance of the collocation when compared to random distribution. The list does not tell us where the collocate occurs in relation to the node, before it or after it, one word or three words away, etc. So the collocates can also be displayed in a positionally specific graphic form (called 'picture' in the Cobuild system), up to six words on either side of the node. For example, here is the 'picture' for 3 words either side of 'continuity', again based on 'T-score'): there to and NODE of the also a of the NODE and care world to is of NODE in change history sense provide a NODE announcer than foreign opening change for NODE with service policy closing break provide NODE is consciousn past this maintain some NODE from stability and no ensure historical NODE between progressio there of stability maintain NODE rather this in so lack ensure NODE or its from by degree its NODE there one of who announceme than NODE <t> all this start thread no NODE has our life provide would family NODE as been gulf can there essential NODE but support continue some and giving NODE important their training would an needs NODE which education local able some experience NODE here work church makes lose both NODE point us between important need represent NODE although between whole 70