The similarities and differences of easy and simple: a corpus-based study  

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Nugroho, Ardi

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: CONEST 12: The Twelfth Conference on English Studies, Jakarta, Unika Atma Jaya, page 139-144.
Topik: corpus; collocation; frequency
Fulltext: 139-144.pdf (893.68KB)

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EFL learners often have difficulty producing native-like collocations. The combination of words produced may seem acceptable in terms of meaning, yet it may not be common for native speakers of English. This is especially true for words which are synonymous in meaning such as big and large. Seeing as they have similar meaning, one could assume that the two words may be used interchangeably. Nevertheless, there are certain occasions in which one word may be more appropriate than the other. For example, it is common to say big trouble, but it would be strange to say large trouble. There are several ways to find out the most appropriate collocations of various words, one of them is by using corpora. Many online corpora such as the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and British National Corpus (BNC) are readily available and can be used to examine the collocations of various words. This study is an attempt to explore the similarities and differences of two synonymous words, i.e. easy and simple by using COCA as reference. The research is limited to the investigation of the two adjectives in terms of their frequency and collocation. The result shows that both words are commonly found in the magazine context, but they differ in terms of the words that most frequently collocate with each of them.

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