Author(s)

Lin Hao ¹, Xu Shujuan ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ College of Foreign Languages, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, Hebei, 063210, China

Corresponding Author

Lin Hao

ABSTRACT

There are a large number of near-synonyms in English, differentiating these words have always been one of the major difficulties in English learning. The participation of the corpus provides a new approach to the identification of near-synonyms.Based on the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), this study identifies Road and Street, a group of near-synonyms in terms of register, collocation and semantic rhyme, and the results show that the main difference between the prosody is in semantic and lexical collocation.The purpose of this paper is to help learners further improve their vocabulary recognition skills by means of the corpus.

KEYWORDS

COCA Corpus, English Learning, Near synonym identification

CITE THIS PAPER

Lin Hao, Xu Shujuan, A Study of Synonyms Based on COCA Corpus Road and Street as Examples. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 27-32. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.060305.

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