Representativeness in Corpus Design

The paper distinguishes among various ways that linguistic features can be distributed within and across texts; it analyzes the distributions of several particular features, and it discusses the implications of these distributions for corpus design.

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Journal Article Representativeness in Corpus Design Get access DOUGLAS BIBER DOUGLAS BIBER Department of English, Northern Arizona University Douglas Biber, Department of English, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 6032, Flagstaff, AZ 86011–6032, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Literary and Linguistic Computing, Volume 8, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 243–257, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/8.4.243 Published: 01 January 1993