本文基于Brown语料库的100万词的数据,考察科技英语的篇际词汇增长模型,以篇章为计量单位,描述科技英语文本中词汇量V(N)与累积文本容量N之间的函数关系。通过对幂函数和对数函数的比较分析,构建了新的词汇增长模型,并应用此模型推导出...本文基于Brown语料库的100万词的数据,考察科技英语的篇际词汇增长模型,以篇章为计量单位,描述科技英语文本中词汇量V(N)与累积文本容量N之间的函数关系。通过对幂函数和对数函数的比较分析,构建了新的词汇增长模型,并应用此模型推导出科技英语的理论词汇增长曲线及其95%双向置信区间。本研究属于计算语言学的基础理论研究,反映了语言的经济律,有深刻的理论价值;另外,本文对英语作为外语的教学(English as Foreign Language,简称EFL),特别是词汇教学和教材编写,也有一定的指导意义。展开更多
This paper explores two fundamental issues concerning the inter-textual vocabulary growth patterns for Marine Engineering English,viz.vocabulary growth models and newly occurring vocabulary distributions in cumulative...This paper explores two fundamental issues concerning the inter-textual vocabulary growth patterns for Marine Engineering English,viz.vocabulary growth models and newly occurring vocabulary distributions in cumulative texts.On the basis of the DMMEE(Dalian Maritime University Marine Engineering English)corpus,four mathematical models(Brunet's, Guiraud's,Tuldava's,and Herdan's models)are tested against the empirical vocabulary growth curve for Marine Engineering English.A new growth model based on the logarithmic function and the power law is presented.The theoretical mean vocabulary size and the 95% upper and lower bound values are calculated and plotted as functions of the sample size.Being significant in explicit EFL teaching and learning,the new growth model can make accurate estimates not only on the vocabulary size and its intervals for a given textbook but also on the volume of texts that are needed to produce a particular vocabulary size.展开更多
文摘本文基于Brown语料库的100万词的数据,考察科技英语的篇际词汇增长模型,以篇章为计量单位,描述科技英语文本中词汇量V(N)与累积文本容量N之间的函数关系。通过对幂函数和对数函数的比较分析,构建了新的词汇增长模型,并应用此模型推导出科技英语的理论词汇增长曲线及其95%双向置信区间。本研究属于计算语言学的基础理论研究,反映了语言的经济律,有深刻的理论价值;另外,本文对英语作为外语的教学(English as Foreign Language,简称EFL),特别是词汇教学和教材编写,也有一定的指导意义。
文摘This paper explores two fundamental issues concerning the inter-textual vocabulary growth patterns for Marine Engineering English,viz.vocabulary growth models and newly occurring vocabulary distributions in cumulative texts.On the basis of the DMMEE(Dalian Maritime University Marine Engineering English)corpus,four mathematical models(Brunet's, Guiraud's,Tuldava's,and Herdan's models)are tested against the empirical vocabulary growth curve for Marine Engineering English.A new growth model based on the logarithmic function and the power law is presented.The theoretical mean vocabulary size and the 95% upper and lower bound values are calculated and plotted as functions of the sample size.Being significant in explicit EFL teaching and learning,the new growth model can make accurate estimates not only on the vocabulary size and its intervals for a given textbook but also on the volume of texts that are needed to produce a particular vocabulary size.