Self-test

Try this self-test when you've looked at all the other pages. Use the drop-down menus to select the correct answer for each question and then click on the submit button. You'll be told how many questions you got right, which ones you got wrong, and given the chance to try again.

  1. Which of the following is NOT an example of early corpus linguistics?
  2. Which school of thought uses naturally occuring data?
  3. What is competence?
  4. Which of the following is NOT one of Chomsky's criticisms about corpus data?
  5. "The man saw that the cat saw that the woman knew that the child saw… is an example of a
  6. Which of the following is NOT a benefit of introspection
  7. Who summed up corpus research as being composed of "pseudo-techniques"?
  8. Which of the following is NOT a criticism of introspection?
  9. What is a concordance?
  10. The London-Lund corpus was built on the work of which two other corpora?
After completing the self-test you might also like to consider the Study Questions in Chapter 1, pages 18-19 in Corpus Linguistics.