Question

text corpora such as the international corpus of english are enormous collections of electronically stored texts that can be used for empirical testing of hypotheses regarding the frequency of typical word usage. if one has a ____ that the word \last\ has a high incidence in english, for example, an analysis of a corpus can support that hypothesis by showing that \last\ is the fourth most commonly used adjective. 4 which choice completes the text with the most logical and a recognition b conjecture c scheme d synopsis

Explanation:

"Recognition" means being widely - known. A corpus analysis can show a word's high recognition by its frequency. "Conjecture" is a guess, "scheme" is a plan, and "synopsis" is a summary. None of these fit as well as "recognition" in the context of word usage frequency.

Answer:

A. recognition