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corpus representativeness: a standalone construct

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Corpus linguistics

the extent to which a corpus includes the full range of variability in a language or variety, treated as the central criterion for corpus design.

In corpus linguistics, corpus representativeness refers to the extent to which a corpus includes the full range of variability in a language or variety, treated as the central criterion for corpus design. This meaning comes from Biber (1993) in Literary and Linguistic Computing.[1]

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  1. Biber, D. (1993). Representativeness in Corpus Design. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 8(4), 243-257. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/8.4.243

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