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Across dozens of studies, junk words [closed-class words like prepositions and pronouns] have proven to be powerful markers of peoples [sic] psychological states.
Archive 2010-05-01 GamesWithWords 2010
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Across dozens of studies, junk words [closed-class words like prepositions and pronouns] have proven to be powerful markers of peoples [sic] psychological states.
You are what you say GamesWithWords 2010
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But functional words, as closed-class items, will not make up a large part of the vocabulary.
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Recall would be a lot higher if pairs involving closed-class words and the standard phonetic confusables above were taken into account (our own metrics based on a large corpus of real mistakes shows that our recall is in fact higher than the 20-25\% found by Hirst, and is around 40\%).
MSDN Blogs 2009
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Recall would be a lot higher if pairs involving closed-class words and the standard phonetic confusables above were taken into account (our own metrics based on a large corpus of real mistakes shows that our recall is in fact higher than the 20-25\% found by Hirst, and is around 40\%).
MSDN Blogs 2009
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Recall would be a lot higher if pairs involving closed-class words and the standard phonetic confusables above were taken into account (our own metrics based on a large corpus of real mistakes shows that our recall is in fact higher than the 20-25\% found by Hirst, and is around 40\%).
MSDN Blogs 2009
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Recall would be a lot higher if pairs involving closed-class words and the standard phonetic confusables above were taken into account (our own metrics based on a large corpus of real mistakes shows that our recall is in fact higher than the 20-25\% found by Hirst, and is around 40\%).
MSDN Blogs 2009
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Recall would be a lot higher if pairs involving closed-class words and the standard phonetic confusables above were taken into account (our own metrics based on a large corpus of real mistakes shows that our recall is in fact higher than the 20-25\% found by Hirst, and is around 40\%).
MSDN Blogs 2009
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Recall would be a lot higher if pairs involving closed-class words and the standard phonetic confusables above were taken into account (our own metrics based on a large corpus of real mistakes shows that our recall is in fact higher than the 20-25\% found by Hirst, and is around 40\%).
MSDN Blogs 2009
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Recall would be a lot higher if pairs involving closed-class words and the standard phonetic confusables above were taken into account (our own metrics based on a large corpus of real mistakes shows that our recall is in fact higher than the 20-25\% found by Hirst, and is around 40\%).
MSDN Blogs 2009
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