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This paper proposes a method of extracting discourse-functional lexical units from corpora of learner and native English.

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The method described in the paper is optimized for identifying the most widely used lexical units (both single and multiword combinations) which are used to manage and connect the structure of spoken discourse.

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This page is a summary of: Using n-gram independence to identify discourse-functional lexical units in spoken learner corpus data, International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, September 2015, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/ijlcr.1.2.03pez.
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