If a linguist analyzes a large corpus of political speeches using n-gram analysis under a constraint of limited computational resources, which consequence follows?

💡 Explanation

Because n-gram analysis identifies frequent word sequences, limited resources necessitate shorter n-grams or smaller corpora, therefore rare but significant collocations may be overlooked due to insufficient data to meet statistical significance, rather than the successful identification of perfect syntactic parsing or trivial semantic interpretation.

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