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Mary Bary.

Corpus linguistics · Northern Arizona University

Language is evidence.

I specialize in language comprehension. I use corpus methods, linguistic annotation, and quantitative modeling to turn complex data into concrete evidence of how people process language. My doctoral research in applied linguistics applies these computational and statistical methods to identify the specific factors that make complex communication difficult to navigate.

PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics·Northern Arizona University·PhD expected 2027

7

peer-reviewed articles

4.2M

words in a genre-balanced TV corpus

8

languages

Research areas

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Legal language comprehension

How statutory and institutional language is understood - and where it breaks down. Miranda warnings, jury instructions, plain-language redesign.

Corpus methodology & annotation

Building and tagging large corpora; word-sense disambiguation, lexico-grammatical tagging, and automated genre classification.

Second-language comprehension

Crosslinguistic influence and listening comprehension across eight languages; elicited imitation as a measure of understanding.

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