[p 56] The term collocation refers to the characteristic co-occurrence patterns of words, i.e., which words typically co-occur in corpus data (see Units A10.2 and C1). Collocates can be lexical words or grammatical words. Collocations are identified using a statistical approach. Three statistical formulae are most commonly used in corpus linguistics to identify significant collocations: the M1 (mutual information), t and z scores.
[p 159] In lexical studies collocation and semantic prosody/preference can only be quantified reliably on the basis of corpus data.
During those years you had programs like The Big Red One on WAPI in Birmingham, Alabama, which was avidly promilitary, being aired at the same time as The Anderson Platoon on CBS, which showed the 'grunt's-eye view,' an unfavorable picture of the war.
The difference in the coefficient of thermal expansion between the film and the coating can cause the coating to delaminate.
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