Complex noun phrases
Þ A + N
flaky types, greater hyperconnectivity, bulbous
shape, basic anatomy, deliberate hyperbole
Þ N + prep + N
photograph of you, universal laws of art, staggering
complexity of the structure, three-dimensional
representation of your own body
Þ N + subclause
places where, two recurring themes that, Victorian
Englishmen who
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Þ N + N
ballroom dance, heart pacemaker, body parts, brain
map
Þ Adv + A + N
seemingly unrelated concepts, totally hypothetical
example, absolutely extraordinary prosthetics
Þ A + N + N
European Renaissance art, shattered glass shape,
different sense perceptions
Þ N + N + N
sickle cell anaemia
ð
Other
(infrequent
patterns)
property of being jagged, risk of annoying some of
specialist colleagues, rough idea of what the brain
looks like
Single-word terms
cosmos, neuron, synaesthesia, amoeba, cortex
Numbers
two shapes, one in two hundred people, in the last
three hundred years, first
Proper names
Aldous Huxley, Lord Reith, Shakespeare, Angela
Merkel
Culture-specific items
Chola, goddess Parvati, Yankee, soft-boiled egg
Idioms
time and again, in short, wouldn’t give me a penny for
it, ruling with an iron fist
Phrasal verbs
step out, filter out, turns out
Table 5 shows the number of occurrences of each category and gives a first rough
estimate of the difficulty profile of the source speeches.
Table 5 – Difficulty profile of source speeches (tokens)
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IN02
IN03
IN04
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