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Vongpumivitch, Viphavee; Huang, Ju-yu; Chang, Yu-Chia – English for Specific Purposes, 2009
This study is a corpus-based lexical study that aims to explore the use of words in Coxhead's (2000) Academic Word List (AWL) in journal articles in the field of applied linguistics. A 1.5 million-word corpus called the Applied Linguistics Research Articles Corpus (ALC) was created for this study. The corpus consists of 200 research articles that…
Descriptors: Language Research, Applied Linguistics, Word Lists, Journal Articles
Master, Peter – Online Submission, 1993
The determiners in English include three categories: predeterminers, central determiners, and postdeterminers. The focus of the present study is the central determiners because they comprise the largest group and because a minimum of one central determiner is required in the generation of any noun phrase. Furthermore, the central determiners have…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Discourse Communities, Nouns, Academic Discourse