frequency of occurrence
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffrequencyandoccurrence
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frequency
noun
uk/ˈfriː.kwən.si/us/ˈfriː.kwən.si/
the number of times something happens within a particular period, or the fact of something happening often or a large number ...
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occurrence
noun
uk/əˈkʌr.əns/us/əˈkɝː.əns/
something ...
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(Definition offrequencyandoccurrencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The pairs are then presented to a human in order of decreasing mutual information, not decreasingfrequencyofoccurrence.
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In other words, the amount of yod deletion a token receives does not seem to be related to itsfrequencyofoccurrence.
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The list also reports thefrequencyofoccurrenceof individual loanwords in different newspapers and magazines.
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Given their extremely highfrequencyofoccurrencein the language, definite and indefinite articles would be expected to play a major part in this process.
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If one were to take one of these discourse patterns in isolation, thenfrequencyofoccurrencewould not be terribly informative.
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Emergence of suffixes, including their phonological behavior, should be influenced byfrequencyofoccurrencein the input.
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Moreover,frequencyofoccurrencehad to be balanced, which lead to the exclusion of several possible candidates from the lists.
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What are the relative frequencies of fricatives and thefrequencyofoccurrenceof affricates and liquids across utterance position?
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Species varied greatly in theirfrequencyofoccurrencein flocks between fragments.
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In the present study however,frequencyofoccurrenceof individual species in flocks showed high variation across fragments resulting in substantial differences in flock composition.
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For instance, highfrequencyofoccurrence, which correlates positively with prenominal position, also strongly correlates with monosyllabicity.
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Other lesions, such as left-to-right shunting and complete transposition, showed no significant racial difference in thefrequencyofoccurrence.
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There is a moderate (but significant) correlation betweenfrequencyofoccurrenceof individual verb forms in the input and age of acquisition.
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This difference in adaptation to the standard language could be due to differences infrequencyofoccurrencebetween 'trousers' and 'matches'.
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It also assumes thatfrequencyofoccurrenceis directly related to generality.
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In conclusion, it may be worth emphasizing that nocturnal layering events are more important than it might seem from their (relatively low)frequencyofoccurrence.
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Frequencyofoccurrenceis a construct that has long been associated with morpheme acquisition.
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Assignment of an individual's usage to a stage is not absolute, but rather reflectsfrequencyofoccurrencewithin a given constraint.
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