frequency of use
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffrequencyanduse
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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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use
noun
uk/juːs/us/juːs/
a purpose for which something ...
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(Definition offrequencyandusefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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One final effect of context and highfrequencyofuseshould be mentioned.
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If timing and frequency of instructional input do not determine order of emergence orfrequencyofuseof will and going to, what does?
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For instancefrequencyofuseof die collapses die used as nominative and accusative singular and plural.
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Thus, for the definite article paradigmfrequencyofusein adult speech and error preferences by children corresponded moderately to less well.
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We attribute this fact to factors including syntactic constraints, semantic relations, pragmatic interference andfrequencyofuseeffects.
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To avoid excessive backtracking, we resorted to an alternative strategy in which syntactic possibilities were ordered according to theirfrequencyofuse.
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Let us briefly review howfrequencyofuseexplains the correlates.
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The word predictions made are based on initial characters typed and on the recency andfrequencyofuseof words contained in a dictionary.
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The only way in which the relevant contexts can be defined is with reference tofrequencyofuse.
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This allowed for a wider range of uses and a higherfrequencyofuse, resulting eventually in morphological fusion (going to>gonna).
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Furthermore, notice that children's use of past tense on punctual verbs exceeds itsfrequencyofusein the input in both acquisition contexts.
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However, there is a difference in thefrequencyofusewith respect to monolinguals.
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Thefrequencyofuseof this verb requires further investigation.
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Higherfrequencyofusewith predicate adjectives over other contexts might reflect an even later development.
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Parents ratedfrequencyofuseof each style on a 5-point scale (1 = never, 5 = all the time).
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Surveyed growers were asked to indicate weekly, monthly, annual or nofrequencyofusefor each of 12 specified information sources.
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Below these modern breeders' own lines in terms offrequencyofuseare publicly accessible collections (genebanks), and below these in situ (field-level) collections.
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The number of samples of each manure type re-ected itsfrequencyofuseon the case study far ms during the research.
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Thus, although the results are mixed, they suggest that our regression analyses are not grossly confounded by childfrequencyofuse.
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However, if theirfrequencyofuseis low, they may not be sufficiently available in experience to be acquired and entrenched.
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