>spoken data will arguably show many more frequently used clusters than
written
>data. Or perhaps just "different"?
Since written English tends to have a higher lexical density than speech,
it is reasonable to assume that writing contains a higher proportion of
nominal clusters while speech a more frequent use of clusters containing
functional items, especially auxiliaries.
Alex Fang
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