Language learners often assume that using rare, complex vocabulary will make their speech sound more fluent. Research ...

Fluency in a foreign language is often thought to be about speaking quickly and using advanced vocabulary. However, researchers reveal that speakers who use common, everyday expressions sound more ...

They measured the use of bigram and trigram expressions (two- and three-word sequences) and had fluency judged by 10 experienced raters. The study controlled for key fluency metrics, including ...

Language learners often assume that using rare, complex vocabulary will make their speech sound more fluent. Research suggests that there is a close ...

text = "Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage not much larger than a rat-hole she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw How she ...

This is a simple extension of the "Count the Bigrams". In the first part of the exercise, you'll count bigrams, and in the second part of the exercise, you'll compute bigram relative frequencies. Hint ...