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1) Which of the following disciplines traditionally involves a rationalist methodology, and which disciplines are based on an empirical methodology? Can we think of any situation in which a discipline of a rather empirical nature could have recourse to a rationalist methodology and vice versa?

chemistry – ethics – medicine – law – anthropology

2) Among Chomsky’s objections to corpus linguistics, which of them can also be applied to the experimental methodology?

3) In the research projects mentioned below, which one seems to use corpora as a methodological tool (corpus-based) and which seems to use corpora as a theoretical tool (corpus-driven)?

a) Search in a corpus for all passive voice sentences in order to formulate the rules governing the use of this construction in French.

b) Search in a corpus for all passive voice sentences in order to determine whether they are used more with state verbs than with activity verbs.

4) Why have computing tools especially devoted to corpus linguistics been developed? What are their main functions?

5) Look for an example of a quantitative study and another qualitative study that could be done so as to determine the most common types of spelling mistakes made by children. Which would be the specific contributions of each of these studies?

6) How could we use a corpus and carry out an experiment to study the question of the different types of spelling errors in a complementary way?

7) What type of corpus should be used to work with the research questions stated below?

a) Study of the pronunciation of vowels in French-speaking Switzerland.

b) Study of the evolution of word construction using the prefix hyperin French.

c) Study of possible translations of idioms from French into English.