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  2. Lexicography - Wikipedia

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    Lexicography is the study of lexicons and the art of compiling dictionaries. [1] It is divided into two separate academic disciplines : Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries .

  3. List of lexicographers - Wikipedia

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    Adam Kilgarriff (UK, 1960–2015) English and computer lexicography; Barbara Ann Kipfer (US, born 1954) English general and LSP; Ferdinand Kittel (Germany/India, 1832–1903) Kannada and English bilingual; Friedrich Kluge (Germany, 1856–1926) German language etymological; Grzegorz Knapski (Poland, 1561–1639) Polish, Latin and Greek thesaurus

  4. Lexicology - Wikipedia

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    Lexicology is the branch of linguistics that analyzes the lexicon of a specific language.A word is the smallest meaningful unit of a language that can stand on its own, and is made up of small components called morphemes and even smaller elements known as phonemes, or distinguishing sounds.

  5. Lexicometry - Wikipedia

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    Lexicometrics arose from the interest of linguists and historians in the emerging computer sciences in the 1950s and 1960s and, from a theoretical point of view, reflects a focus on quantitative approaches in the humanities (in particular, quantitative history ) and research. for collective structures in language, under the influence of structuralism. [2]

  6. Test of English as a Foreign Language - Wikipedia

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    Each of the four sections (Reading, Listening, Speaking, and Writing) receives a scaled score from 0 to 30. The scaled scores from the four sections are added together to determine the total score. The reading and listening sections are tested first, followed by a ten-minute break.

  7. English lexicology and lexicography - Wikipedia

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    English lexicology and lexicography is that field in English language studies which examines English lexicon, ... Further reading. Bauer, L. 1993. English Word ...

  8. International Test of English Proficiency - Wikipedia

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    In 2014, iTEP released the Official iTEP Preparation Guide, printing an updated edition in 2015. The Prep Guide consists of a 133-page printed book intended to familiarize test-takers with the format of the tests, and two practice tests, one to be taken before reading the book as a diagnostic, and another to be taken at the end as a comparison.

  9. Lexis (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    This is done by means of a t-score. If we take for example the word "stranger" (comparative adjective and noun), a t-score analysis will provide us with information such as word frequency in the corpus: words such as "no" and "to" are not surprisingly very frequent; a word such as "controversy" much less.