online spoken corpus

Online Corpus of Spoken American English | Danyal Freeman | April 5th, 2003

Hi all

I just stumbled across a 2-million word spoken corpus of American Academic English.

It's not easy to find spoken corpora, particularly free ones. This one is interesting because it's tagged not according to POS, but by other variables such as speech event type, age range, native speaker type, etc.

Question for the tutors? Is it acceptable to use the corpus as the basis for an assignment, such as for LEX?

Best

Danyal

Re: Online Corpus | James Hobbs | April 7th, 2003

Danyal,

Thanks for the recommendation. I just tried it out and was very impressed with the speed and range of the search facility. As the corpus is only of academic American English it'll have its limitations, but it still looks like a very useful resource.

Thanks again.

James
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Re: Spoken Corpus | Steve Mann | April 8th, 2003

Hi all

Thanks for the link Danyal.

In response to Danyal's question, I can't see any reason why you couldn't use such a corpus for analysis.

Obviously there are reasons why you might want to build up your own mini-corpus. For example, I looked at telephone interaction and compared a small corpus with COBUILD. However, this is some task and probably a more realistic dissertation task than an assignment task.

However, I'll cc this to Sue Wright and she may have further comment.

Best

Steve

 

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