Re: Corpora: grammar of English letter-sequences

From: Michael Rundell (michael.rundell@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 11:43:09 MET DST

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    Not sure if this helps, but I remember Paul Meara devised some
    vocabulary-size tests for assessing ESL students. Students had to say which
    words they recognized: some of these were not "real" English words - but
    they had to look as if they might be. so to achieve this effect, Paul must
    have had some data on what were and were not plausible letter-sequences.

    I'm afraid i don't have an up to date contact address for PM though

    best - Michael Rundell

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Geoffrey Sampson <geoffs@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
    To: corpora@hd.uib.no <corpora@hd.uib.no>
    Cc: malcolm@cogs.susx.ac.uk <malcolm@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
    Date: 04 May 2000 10:06
    Subject: Corpora: grammar of English letter-sequences

    >
    >Does anyone know of anything like a grammar of English letter-sequences --
    >a system which generates the range of character-sequences which could
    >plausibly occur as words of English, and a subset of which actually do?
    >
    >
    >Prof. Geoffrey Sampson
    >
    >School of Cognitive & Computing Sciences
    >University of Sussex
    >Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, GB
    >
    >e-mail geoffs@cogs.susx.ac.uk
    >tel. +44 1273 678525
    >fax +44 1273 671320
    >Web site http://www.grs.u-net.com
    >



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