OF and TO Usage in Spoken Texts

Knowles highlights two crucial points with regards to spoken language here: first, our common expectations, driven by years of schooling, to expect language to be the written word ; and second, that spoken language appears to follow a pattern quite different to what we have in written text, giving rise to the impression that the spoken is “disjointed and inarticulate”. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.