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Carefully composed parental diaries were recorded on child's locution. These were the first primitive corpora.
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Kading used a German Corpus that consisted of over 11 million words to collate the frequency distribution of letter and sequences of letter in German.
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Fries and Traver are linguists who used corpus data in research on Foreign Language Pedagogy.
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Corpus Linguistics is know as a field of Linguistics.
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Corpus Linguistics was largely abandoned due to a large criticism, although it never totally died.
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Chomsky makes comments on a list that was collected by Reiger which had 225 errors.
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Quirk planned and executed the construction of the Survey of English Usage (SEU).
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Francis and Kucera began to work on the "Brown Corpus". A famous corpus that took over two decades to complete.
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Abercrombie summed up the corpus-based approach as being composed of "pseudo-procedures".
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Noam Chosmky cautioned the rejection of performance data as a source of evidence for language acquisition studies.
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A corpus of British English was compiled at the universities of Lancaster, Oslo and Bergen, commonly abbreviated as the LOB corpus.
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Jan Svartvik started to construct the London-Lund corpus with the SEU and the Brown corpus.
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Corpus Linguistics adopted once more after abandonment.
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Kennedy noted that Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Pedagogy had a strong link: vocabulary lists for foreign learners.
