Workshop Week 2017

Date: Monday, July 24th until Friday, July 28th

Place: Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017, Birmingham

Topc: Different topics from Multilingual Text Analysis

Participants: Master students in Multilingual Text Analysis and Computational Linguistics

Coordinators: Prof. Marianne Hundt and PD Gerold Schneider, University of Zurich

• Mo, July 24th, 2017: Workshop 2: Complexity in Writing Development: Untangling Two Approaches to Measuring Grammatical Complexity
• Tu, July 25th until Fr, July 28th: Daily attendance on three pre-selected presentations of the Conference Pogramme

Introduction: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-artslaw/corpus/conference-archives/2017/pre-conference-workshop-2-attachment.pdf

• Anthony, L. (2014). AntConc (Version 3.4.4) [Computer software]. Tokyo, Japan: Waseda University. Available from http://www.laurenceanthony.net/

• Biber, D. (1988). Variation across speech and writing. Cambridge University Press. [on Gerold’s reserve shelf]

• Biber, D. & Gray, B. (2010). Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: Complexity, elaboration, explicitness. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 9, 2-20.

• Biber, D., Gray, B., & Poonpon, K. (2011). Should we use characteristics of conversation to measure grammatical complexity in L2 writing development? TESOL Quarterly, 45(1), 5-35. [available online at UZH]

• Biber, D., Gray, B., & Staples, S. (2016). Predicting patterns of grammatical complexity across language exam task types and proficiency levels. Applied Linguistics, 37(5), 639-669.  [available online at UZH]

• Crossley, S., & McNamara, D. (2014). Does writing development equal writing quality? A computational investigation of syntactic complexity in L2 learners. Journal of Second Language Writing, 26, 66-79.

• Lu, X. (2010). Automatic analysis of syntactic complexity in second language writing. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 15(4), 474-496. [available online]

• Parkinson, J., & Musgrave, J. (2014). Development of noun phrase complexity in the writing of English for academic purposes students. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 14, 48-59.

• Schneider, G. and G. Grigonyte (2016). “Statistical sequence and parsing models for descriptive linguistics and psycholinguistics”. Olga Timofeeva, Sarah Chevalier, Anne-Christine Gardner, and Alpo Honkapohja, eds. New approaches in English Linguistics: Building Bridges. Studies in Language Companion Series. Amsterdam: Benjamins.