Certain linguistic and psycholinguistic hypotheses require information readily derived only from the processing of numerous texts. The employment of electronic computers makes the testing of such hypotheses reasonably feasible; the machines also tend to relieve the researcher of the burden of compiling lists and reference indices “manually.” We have tested programming possibilities on a pilot sample. Two programmes which have proved successful are reported below: one designed to tally co-occurrences of units within frames, the other to yield-inventories of units.
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