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collocation
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col·lo·ca·tion  (kl-kshn)
n.
1. The act of collocating or the state of being collocated.
2. An arrangement or juxtaposition of words or other elements, especially those that commonly co-occur, as rancid butter, bosom buddy, or dead serious.

collo·cation·al adj.

collocation [ˌkɒləˈkeɪʃən]
n
a grouping together of things in a certain order, as of the words in a sentence

Collocation a group or sequence formed by placing things side by side or in a place or position. e.g., words in a sentence or sound in music—Wilkes.
Examples: collocation of intervals and pores, 1684; of magazines, 1813; of poetry, 1873; of various metals, or inlaying them by way of ornament, 1881; of vowels and consonants, 1751; of words, 1750.

The physical placement of two or more detachments, units, organizations, or facilities at a specifically defined location.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.collocation - a grouping of words in a sentence
language unit, linguistic unit - one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed
2.collocation - the act of positioning close together (or side by side)collocation - the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
locating, positioning, emplacement, location, placement, position - the act of putting something in a certain place
tessellation - the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern; "a tessellation of hexagons"
Translations
collocation [ˌkɒləˈkeɪʃən] Ncolocación f
collocation
n (Gram) → Kollokation f


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Topics include: word association profiles in a first and second language, the use of pocket electronic dictionaries for receptive and productive purposes, a longitudinal case study of the emerging L2 lexicon, meaning-last vocabulary acquisition and collocational productivity, and first language reading instruction's relationship to L2 listening ability.
Bearing in mind that semantic features entail different types of information, three classes of features can be distinguished: a) meaning features (Katz & Fodor's distinguishers), b) grammatical features (Katz & Fodor's makers), and c) collocational features (some words differ from others because of the company they keep).
shaped and constrained by stored prototypes (based on cultural knowledge), by the coordinate and collocational links within stored semantic fields, and by innate structures of syntax, sound, and lemmatization" (15).
 
 
 
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