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Article title: Corpus of Contemporary American English

Everything in the article seemed to be relevant to the topic of the title, and there were no elements that proved distracting of the article's main topic.

The article seemed to take a neutral position, as it did not rely on heavily biased claims or information. It discussed briefly the different amount of words between the British and American Corpus, but it could have maybe gone into a little more detail about other differences between the two.

The "Queries" section seemed to be slightly more detailed when compared to the "Content" section. It might be more effective to have both sections equally discussed, maybe add specific examples for each genre category from the corpus.

There is something that seems to be missing from this article, and that is what function the Corpus serves to the general population and the academic field. If you select the link for the creator of this corpus, "Mark Davies", you will find this following statement in the initial brief description of the article: "He specializes in the creation of linguistic corpora that can be used to better study and understand word meaning". I believe it might be helpful to add the purpose the Contemporary American Corpus serves to its Wiki page. This article itself might need a little bit more information, as it does not have more information that relates to the topic, such as how it compares to other language corpus around the world, or maybe even what future plans are in mind for the Corpus, different uses it can serve, etc.

All of the links in the article's citations work. The citation style itself is not clear, since the sources provided on the bibliography do not have a consistent citation format. The first item under "References" links to an article that was last updated in 2016, which seems to be the oldest source out of the selection. There is a clear issue with some of the references and selections from the bibliography, and that is that it leads to websites that offer the option to pay to gain access to different parts of the Corpus. Although it is a fact that one has to pay a fee to access all the data from the Corpus, it would be more appropriate to not link Wiki readers directly to said paid options, instead just link the free services they can access on the platform, and then allow them to explore the paid options by themselves. The article does have a link to the Corpus's official home page, under the "External Links" section. Most of the web sources that are cited under the bibliography are for articles that one has to pay a fee to access in their totality, so the only information that is available for free access is the abstract. This proves to be an issue for ensuring that the information on the Wiki article is backed up by reliable sources since there is no public access to the information.

There is not much conversation going on for this article under the "Talk" section, given the last time it was updated was in May 5 of 2016. It is rated as Start-class, of low-importance. It is part of several WikiProjects, such as Languages, Linguistics/Applied Linguistics, Libraries and United States.

I cannot judge the way this article discusses the topic in comparison with our class discussion because we have not reviewed this in our course yet, we have only discussed the general definition of corpus/corpora.

WEEK 5 ASSIGNMENT

My group has chosen to improve the Wiki page for "Determiner". We plan to add more sections to this page, since it is currently very short. We are going to do some research using our university tools to find more important information about the topic that should be out there for public knowledge. The current Wiki page lacks diversity in its references, it would probably help to find reputable sources on the topic outside of the current sphere of research that is already included in the page. I believe it will be important to add information about how determiners work/affect other elements of linguistics, syntax, phonetics, etc.

Bibliography:

Prosody and animacy in the development of noun determiner use: A cross-linguistic approach Dominique Bassano, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Isabelle Maillochon, Marijn van Dijk, Sabine Laaha, Paul van Geert, Wolfgang U Dressler. First Language Vol 33, Issue 5, pp. 476 - 503 First Published September 23, 2013 https://doi-org.ezproxy.uta.edu/10.1177/0142723713503253

This research delves into how cross linguistic influence can affect the use of determiners in young language learners. The experiment tests the different prosodic and lexical semantics of children that are in the process of learning French, Austrian German and Dutch. This source would definitely help the Wiki page have some more linguistic specific content, but it would have to be put into terms that are easy to understand for non-linguists, and provide many references to other Wiki pages that cover the discussed linguistic terms.

Tatangrunge (talk) 01:48, 3 February 2018 (UTC)Jonathan