Papers by Phoebe M.S. Lin
Internet social media as a multimodal corpus for profiling the prosodic patterns of formulaic speech., 2016
Conference: Joint conference of the English Linguistics Society of Korea and the Korea Society of... more Conference: Joint conference of the English Linguistics Society of Korea and the Korea Society of Language and InformationAt: Kyung Hee University, South Korea
A corpus-driven analysis of luxury hotels’ responses to online reviews., 2017
Conference: The 4th Asia-Pacific LSP and Professional Communication Association ConferenceAt: Vic... more Conference: The 4th Asia-Pacific LSP and Professional Communication Association ConferenceAt: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
How many exposures do learners need to learn an English phrase? A big data approach., 2016
Conference: The 20th Workshop on Linguistics and Language ProcessingAt: Kyung Hee Institute for t... more Conference: The 20th Workshop on Linguistics and Language ProcessingAt: Kyung Hee Institute for the Study of Language and Information (ISLI), Kyung Hee University, South Korea
Multilingual Theory And Practice In Applied Linguistics: Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, 2013
Vocabulary has been a relatively self-contained area of linguistic research for decades. While Ha... more Vocabulary has been a relatively self-contained area of linguistic research for decades. While Halliday and Sinclair started many interesting discussions of the interface between lexis and grammar in the 1960s (e.g. Halliday, 1966, 1991, 1992; Sinclair, 1966, 2004), the interface between lexis and phonology remains underexplored to date. Drawing from the latest research on formulaic language, which is a rapidly growing subject in vocabulary research, this paper argues that a comprehensive understanding of vocabulary acquisition and knowledge can only be gained by incorporating the phonological interface.
Routledge eBooks, Jul 12, 2023
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Aug 20, 2009
Applied Corpus Linguistics, 2023
This short communication discusses the impact of ChatGPT on the field of corpus linguistics, part... more This short communication discusses the impact of ChatGPT on the field of corpus linguistics, particularly its potential as a concordancer. As a corpus linguist and app developer, the author reflects on how ChatGPT's ease of use, efficiency, and popularity could challenge traditional concordancers, and explores ways in which ChatGPT could be used to generate concordances and frequency lists.
The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities, 2020
In the age of the Internet, trillions of bytes of media data are generated every day through tele... more In the age of the Internet, trillions of bytes of media data are generated every day through telecommunications and social media. This surge of born-digital media data, for example, instant voice/video messages, conference calls, podcasts, video blogs and so on, offers researchers unprecedented opportunities to deepen their understanding of how human beings communicate and go about their social activities. However, such a large amount of data also brings a new problem: how may we plough through so much media data and extract meaningful information efficiently?
This chapter explores opportunities and challenges at the interface between digital humanities and multimodality research which focuses on the use of prosody and gesture in spoken communication. Following an overview of key methods and frameworks in prosody and gestures research, it highlights selected projects which have showcased the ways in which today’s computer technology has revolutionised multimodality as an area of research. In recent years, many new computer tools have become available to aid media data acquisition, processing and analysis. These tools have (semi-)automatised many processes which were labour-intensive, expensive and tedious. Therefore, researchers can now afford to compile and process substantially larger multimodal datasets much faster and at a much lower cost. The chapter also introduces tools which open up new avenues for researchers to acquire new types of multimodal data (e.g. YouTube videos) and data streams (e.g. GPS, heartbeats). In the sample analysis, we demonstrate the typical workflow for using a range of these latest computer tools to generate a corpus of YouTube videos, automatically annotate prosodic patterns, align multiple data streams and perform a multimodal analysis on the use of the epistemic stance marker ‘I think’ in video blogs.
Understanding Formulaic Language, 2018
On the basis that most first language formulaic sequences are acquired and accessed auditorily, t... more On the basis that most first language formulaic sequences are acquired and accessed auditorily, this chapter argues for the fundamental importance of the prosodic representation of formulaic sequences in the mental lexicon. It also critically examines the suggestion that prosody can offer reliable cues to facilitate formulaic sequence acquisition and that second language learners’ lack of exposure to spoken input may have led to their difficulties with acquiring second language formulaic sequences.
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2017
Researching Collocations in Another Language, 2009
With the advent of the rapid development of corpus over the past decade, we see an ever-increasin... more With the advent of the rapid development of corpus over the past decade, we see an ever-increasing body of research on collocations. As Moon (1997: 41) puts it, ‘it is difficult and arguably pointless to study such things [i.e. collocation] except through using large amounts of real data’. However, there are different views of collocations, and the one that we adopt is in line with that of Sinclair (1991) who regards collocations as recurrent, continuous or discontinuous, word combinations that may be retrieved from a corpus based on raw or adjusted frequency measures. This view of collocation essentially overlaps with what corpus linguists commonly call phraseological units or phraseology in the field. As Sinclair (1991) points out, these phraseological units play a central role in language production, and research (e.g. Biber, Conrad and Cortes, 2004; Biber et al., 1999a; Bolinger, 1976; Cowie, 1988; Wray, 2002) shows that they are essentially building blocks of discourse in spoken and written registers.
System, 2014
Abstract This article investigates the validity of the suggestion that internet television can fa... more Abstract This article investigates the validity of the suggestion that internet television can facilitate EFL learners' acquisition of formulaic sequences (FSs). A quantitative study was conducted to examine the extent to which FS use on internet television reflects FS use in the everyday speech of English-speaking communities. The study compares the distribution of FSs in a 7.68 million-word corpus of internet television (the iTV corpus) with that in the spoken component of the British National Corpus (BNC). The results confirm the validity of using internet television as a resource for the acquisition of FSs that are highly frequent in everyday speech. The fact that the frequency at which FSs appear on internet television is directly proportional to that in everyday speech suggests that internet television might help EFL learners establish an accurate intuition about the frequency of use of FSs, which is shown to be missing by previous corpus studies. The article also provides suggestions about the choice of internet television programmes based on the extent to which the distribution of FSs in each iTV subcorpus is similar to that of the spoken component of the BNC.
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2015
This book chapter discusses the opportunities offered by internet television, its pitfalls and th... more This book chapter discusses the opportunities offered by internet television, its pitfalls and the strategies that teachers and learners may use to maximise its benefits to L2 vocabulary acquisition.
TESOL Quarterly, 2021
To investigate the effect of input mode on FE learning, a controlled experiment was conducted inv... more To investigate the effect of input mode on FE learning, a controlled experiment was conducted involving the learning of novel phrases (binomials) presented both aurally and visually out of context. Subjects’ form recall was assessed immediately after incidental learning and compared within-subject. The study aimed to address whether: 1. the outcome of out-of-context FE acquisition differed by input mode; 2. EFL learners and L1 English speakers differed in how well they acquired FEs from aural and visual input; and 3. the number of repetitions affected acquisition. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/tesq.3055
Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics, 2013
This chapter reviews Gotz’s book, Fluency in Native and Nonnative English Speech, which models sp... more This chapter reviews Gotz’s book, Fluency in Native and Nonnative English Speech, which models speech fluency using quantitative corpus linguistic methodologies.
"Lin, P. M. S. (2010). The phonology of form... more "Lin, P. M. S. (2010). The phonology of formulaic sequences: A review. In D. Wood (Ed.), Perspectives on formulaic language: Acquisition and communication (pp. 174-193). London: Continuum. A review of this paper by Professor Alison Wray in The International Journal of Applied Linguistics, vol. 21, issue 1: "The phonological characteristics of formulaic sequences have, to date, been considerably less researched than other features, so it is refreshing to see Lin’s review article exploring the key findings to date. Not surprisingly, Lin quickly comes up against the problem of circularity that plagues formulaic language research, and handles the issue very appropriately. She notes how some researchers “predict [that] formulaic sequences are phonologically coherent because it is believed that they are stored as holistic units, [while] others . . . infer the holistic storage . . . on the basis of phonological coherence” (p.179). She cuts through the circularity by observing that “phonological coherence is more of a fact because it is measurable [whereas] holistic storage is more of a claim because its existence is inferred based on facts” (p.179). Lin helpfully draws together research into formulaic sequences with the more general research into the phonology of connected speech, and her insightful observations make this paper a particularly strong contribution to the collection.""
The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics, 2010
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Papers by Phoebe M.S. Lin
This chapter explores opportunities and challenges at the interface between digital humanities and multimodality research which focuses on the use of prosody and gesture in spoken communication. Following an overview of key methods and frameworks in prosody and gestures research, it highlights selected projects which have showcased the ways in which today’s computer technology has revolutionised multimodality as an area of research. In recent years, many new computer tools have become available to aid media data acquisition, processing and analysis. These tools have (semi-)automatised many processes which were labour-intensive, expensive and tedious. Therefore, researchers can now afford to compile and process substantially larger multimodal datasets much faster and at a much lower cost. The chapter also introduces tools which open up new avenues for researchers to acquire new types of multimodal data (e.g. YouTube videos) and data streams (e.g. GPS, heartbeats). In the sample analysis, we demonstrate the typical workflow for using a range of these latest computer tools to generate a corpus of YouTube videos, automatically annotate prosodic patterns, align multiple data streams and perform a multimodal analysis on the use of the epistemic stance marker ‘I think’ in video blogs.
This chapter explores opportunities and challenges at the interface between digital humanities and multimodality research which focuses on the use of prosody and gesture in spoken communication. Following an overview of key methods and frameworks in prosody and gestures research, it highlights selected projects which have showcased the ways in which today’s computer technology has revolutionised multimodality as an area of research. In recent years, many new computer tools have become available to aid media data acquisition, processing and analysis. These tools have (semi-)automatised many processes which were labour-intensive, expensive and tedious. Therefore, researchers can now afford to compile and process substantially larger multimodal datasets much faster and at a much lower cost. The chapter also introduces tools which open up new avenues for researchers to acquire new types of multimodal data (e.g. YouTube videos) and data streams (e.g. GPS, heartbeats). In the sample analysis, we demonstrate the typical workflow for using a range of these latest computer tools to generate a corpus of YouTube videos, automatically annotate prosodic patterns, align multiple data streams and perform a multimodal analysis on the use of the epistemic stance marker ‘I think’ in video blogs.
This book draws its conclusions from three original, empirical studies of spoken formulaic language, assessing intonation unit boundaries as well as features such as tempo and stress placement. Across all studies, Lin considers questions of methodology and conceptual framework.
The corpus-based descriptions of prosody outlined in this book not only deepen our understanding of the nature of formulaic language but have important implications for English Language Teaching and automatic speech synthesis.