Emergent Language: Collocates, Clusters, and the Construction of One Learner’s Text from academia edu wikipedia Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 7 min 31 sec
✓ Published: 23-Mar-2016

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Complex, dynamic systems and emergent behaviour can be seen all around us – in swirling flocks of birds, in the vicissitudes of the market, in the self-organized use of escalators and check-outs. Language is such a system, with words/grammar constantly evolving and changing as individuals and communities interact.nLearner corpus research analyzes databases of language learners’ texts in order to study patterns of language acquisition and use. This study reverses the usual focus and looks ins