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Frequencies, dispersion and keywords: Practical activity 3

This article offers practical exercises for the Words tool.

Now you can try working with the Words tool in #LancsBox yourself.

If you haven’t done this already, download, extract and run #LancsBox [more info].
Load the LOB and the Brown corpus into #LancsBox [more info].
Go to the Words tool in #LancsBox and start analysing the corpora.
Follow the instructions in Handout 3 (see Downloads below).

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