In a contrastive study we conducted recently (Silva 2006), we found that applying a simple n-gram tool such as the one used in the Corpógrafo to a bilingual corpus of comparable texts in Portuguese and in English allows the identification of significant MWUs or lexical bundles.
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There are still cases when no additional information, whether extracted from MWU lemmas themselves or subsequently from electronic dictionaries, can help in deciding in favor of one inflectional class over other possibilities. For instance, this is the case for krem-karamel ‘caramel cream’ and kamen-temeljac ‘foundation stone’: both components in these MWUs are masculine inanimate nouns in the nominative singular, but in the first one karamel is the head and the first component does not inflect (super-class 2xn), while in the second example kamen is the head and both components inflect (super-class nxn).
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The role of MWUs in processing should be made clearer by generally increased reading speeds over entire MWUs as compared to non-MWUs.
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Regional Maccabiah Games, organized by the MWU, are also held throughout the world.
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