TAILIEUCHUNG - IELTS Academic Reading Sample 127 - Spoken Corpus Comes To Life

Để đạt kết quả cao trong kì thi sắp tới, các bạn có thể tham khảo và tải về IELTS Academic Reading Sample 127 - Spoken Corpus Comes To Life được chia sẻ dưới đây để có thêm tư liệu ôn tập, luyện tập giải đề thi nhanh và chính xác giúp các bạn tự tin đạt điểm cao trong kì thi này. Chúc các bạn thi tốt! | You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-12 which are based on Reading Passage 127 below. Spoken Corpus Comes To Life A The compiling of dictionaries has been historically the provenance of studious professorial types - usually bespectacled - who love to pore over weighty tomes and make pronouncements on the finer nuances of meaning. They were probably good at crosswords and definitely knew a lot of words but the image was always rather dry and dusty. The latest technology and simple technology at that is revolutionising the content of dictionaries and the way they are put together. B For the first time dictionary publishers are incorporating real spoken English into their data. It gives lexicographers people who write dictionaries access to a more vibrant up-to- date vernacular language which has never really been studied before. In one project 150 volunteers each agreed to discreetly tie a Walkman recorder to their waist and leave it running for anything up to two weeks. Every conversation they had was recorded. When the data was collected the length of tapes was 35 times the depth of the Atlantic Ocean. Teams of audio typists transcribed the tapes to produce a computerised database of ten million words. C This has been the basis - along with an existing written corpus - for the Language Activator dictionary described by lexicographer Professor Randolph Quirk as the book the world has been waiting for . It shows advanced foreign learners of English how the language is really used. In the dictionary key words such as eat are followed by related phrases such as wolf down or be a picky eater allowing the student to choose the appropriate phrase. D This kind of research would be impossible without computers said Delia Summers a director of dictionaries. It has transformed the way lexicographers work. If you look at the word like you may intuitively think that the first and most frequent meaning is the verb as in I like swimming . It is not. It is the .

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