Chenggang Wu

Bayesian Hierarchical Multinomial Modeling of Multifunctional Word Usage in Learner-Corpus Data: Evidence from the English Word That

This study applies a Bayesian hierarchical multinomial model to examine the functional distribution of the English word ‘that’ in learner-corpus data. The corpus consisted of 154,694 running words of learner-generated online comments and peer replies produced by 139 first-year Ch...