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Example
1 - Technical Article
We
analyzed the text The
bilingual's language modes, by François Grosjean (Language
and Speech Processing Laboratory, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland),
using TerminologyExtractor. The following information was produced:
Most frequent collocations:
language {modes,mode} (102),
code - {switching,switches,switch,switched} (46),
base language (43),
bilingual mode (37),
monolingual mode (29),
language mixing (22),
{mix,mixing,mixed} {languages,language} (20),
{language,languages} B (15),
mode continuum (14),
s {language,languages} (13),
{levels,level} of activation (12),
language {set,sets} (12),
language mode continuum (12),
bilingual {children,child} (12),
language production (11),
Bilingual Language (11),
English {bilinguals,bilingual} (10),
Language Processing (9)
Most
frequent words:
language (587 occurences),
bilingual
(283),
mode (211),
monolingual (80),
switch (66),
mix (60),
english (57),
word (53),
code (53),
base (52),
s (48),
active (47),
study (46),
process (44),
continuum (37),
child (37),
participant (36),
French (36),
speak (32),
example (31),
bilingualism (30),
time (29),
position (29),
activation (28),
control (27),
case (26),
variable (24),
speaker (24).
Most frequent non-words:
etc (23 occurences),
pp (10),
ed (6),
msec (5),
transference (3),
eds (3),
sociolinguistic (2),
interlexical (2),
terminological (1),
quadrilinguals (1),
psychosocial (1),
postdoc (1),
phonotactic (1).
Most frequent proper nouns (extracted
manually from the non-words list):
Grosjean (33 occurences),
François (13),
Genesee (9),
Siri (8),
Poplack (7),
Nicoladis (7),
Lanza (7),
Grainger (6),
Turkish (5),
Dijkstra (5),
Clyne (5),
Cambridge (5),
Beauvillain (5),
York (4),
Weinreich (4),
Norwegian (4),
Neuchâtel (4),
Fred (4),
Elman (4),
Diehl (4),
Buchwald (4),
BIA (4).
We would like to thank François Grosjean for
kindly letting us analyze his text and publish the results on this page. The
full reference to the text is: "Grosjean, F. The bilingual's language
modes. Chapter to appear in Janet L. Nicol (ed.). One Mind, Two Languages:
Bilingual Language Processing. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999".
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