A. Look for [heart] in the ICAME corpora (Brown, LOB, FROWN, FLOB, AU, NZ, IN)

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1. How many tokens are there altogether?
2. How many phrases with [heart of the] are there? What is the basic meaning of these phrases?
3. What about the phrases with [heart out]? Any semantic prosody here?
4. What are the three words with the highest Z-score with regards to [heart] in FICTION? (Use Reports / Display Reports / Neighborhood Reports from menu of Search Reports)

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1. What are the three most common nouns that occur in the "slot" immediately to the right of [heart]?
2. What are the three most common 3-word clusters with [heart]?

B. Look for [heart] in the BYU Corpus of American English

1. How many tokens are there altogether?
2. Compare the normalized frequency of [heart] in the five major registers. How would you explain this data?
3. What are the three most common nouns that occur in the "slot" immediately to the right of [heart]?
4. What are the three most frequent nouns occurring within five words to the left/right of [heart]? (Use [CONTEXT] and 5 words on each side)
5. What are the three common nouns [nn*] with the highest MI-score with regards to [heart] in FICTION? (Use [SURROUNDING], [PERCENT], MIN FREQ of [5] in REG1, and 5 words on each side)
6. How many phrases with [heart of the] are there? What is the basic meaning of these phrases?
7. What about the phrases with [at heart]? Any semantic prosody here?
8. Compare the ADJECTIVE ( [j*] ) collocates of [heart] in FICTION and ACADEMIC (Use [CONTEXT], SORT = [RELEVANCE], MIN FREQ of [5] in REG1, and 5 words on each side). Any patterns here?