Olsson (n.d.) introduces fundamental forensic‑linguistic concepts, focusing on the definition and construction of corpora and their application to real‑world texts such as police statements. The video illustrates how a specialized corpus of officer reports can reveal recurring, idiosyncratic phrasing and spelling errors that signal textual borrowing, thereby supporting authorship attribution and questioned‑document analysis.
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