collocations
Natural word combinations
Collocations are words that habitually appear together in natural speech.
English speakers say make a decision rather than do a decision, strong coffee rather than powerful coffee—not because grammar requires it, but because convention does.
The singular collocation names this pairing phenomenon or a specific instance of it.
Learning collocations is essential for sounding fluent rather than foreign.
Joint presence in context
- phraseologyManner of verbal expression
- corpusAssembled written works
- frequencyRate of recurrence
- adjacencyState of being beside
bigrams · trigrams · n-grams · concordance · context · patterns · formulaic language · chunks
Instruction in tongues
- second language learningGaining fluency in non-native tongue
- EFLNon-native language instruction
- ESLLanguage instruction abbreviation
- pedagogicalRelating to teaching methods
native speaker · fluency · naturalness · language proficiency · textbooks · register · genre · academic writing
Quantified shared uncertainty reduction
- t-scoreStandardized difference measure
- chi-squareStatistic for categorical data
- PMIProject professionals' association
- spanDistance between endpoints
window size · significance · dispersion · computational · algorithm · data-driven · empirical · quantitative
Relational grammar term
- determinerNoun-introducing word class
- modifierWord altering another
- headUppermost body part
- complementWhat makes complete
syntactic · part of speech · restricted · make · do · have · take
co-occurrence
Joint presence in context
- phraseologyManner of verbal expression
- corpusAssembled written works
- frequencyRate of recurrence
adjacency · bigrams · trigrams · n-grams · concordance · context · patterns · formulaic language · chunks · idiomatic expressions
language teaching
Instruction in tongues
- second language learningGaining fluency in non-native tongue
- EFLNon-native language instruction
- ESLLanguage instruction abbreviation
pedagogical · native speaker · fluency · naturalness · language proficiency · textbooks · register · genre · academic writing · essay writing
mutual information
Quantified shared uncertainty reduction
- t-scoreStandardized difference measure
- chi-squareStatistic for categorical data
- PMIProject professionals' association
span · window size · significance · dispersion · computational · algorithm · data-driven · empirical · quantitative
preposition
Relational grammar term
- determinerNoun-introducing word class
- modifierWord altering another
- headUppermost body part
complement · syntactic · part of speech · restricted · make · do · have · take