Posts Tagged ‘Erin McKean’

Linguists hunt and study words in their natural habitat

Thursday, March 25th, 2004

Sometimes language lovers sound as if they’re on a safari. They talk about observing words in their natural habitat and studying their behavior in herds.

With the first release of the American National Corpus, an annotated body of over 10 million words, linguists can hunt like never before.

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