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Groups of words often adopt a new meaning exceeding the composite meaning of the contributing words (idioms, phrases). They can be identified in large text corpora by search engines. The by far largest text corpus is actually the www, a heterogeneous collection of all sorts of texts, from high arts down to the most trivial gossip. |
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In spite of its
dynamic character, screening the www extensively for word groups returns
surprisingly robust results (Berger, J Quant Linguist 26: 81-94, 2019). In the
proposed project, it is foreseen to extend this study to more languages, recruiting students of various mother tongues. |
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MEi:CogSci
is a joint master’s programme offered by the Comenius University
in Bratislava, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, University of
Ljubljana, and
University of Vienna & Medical University of Vienna. In March 2019,
Viktoriia Vinokurova and Mustafa Mohammed started to extend the study
to Russian and to Arabic, respectively. | |