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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2011
Sources of modern data used throughout the study
BNC = The British National Corpus, version 2 (BNC World). 2001. Distributed by Oxford University Computing Services on behalf of the BNC Consortium. Available at: http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
COLT = Corpus of London Teenage Language, compiled by Anna-Brita Stenström et al. In ICAME Collection of English Language Corpora (CD-ROM), 2nd edn, eds. Knut Hofland, Anne Lindebjerg, and Jørn Thunestvedt, The HIT Centre, University of Bergen, Norway.
FLOB = Freiburg-LOB Corpus, 1991 clone of LOB, compiled by Christian Mair et al. In ICAME Collection of English Language Corpora (CD-ROM), 2nd edn, eds. Knut Hofland, Anne Lindebjerg, Jørn Thunestvedt, The HIT Centre, University of Bergen, Norway.
LOB = London/Oslo-Bergen Corpus of British English. In ICAME Collection of English Language Corpora (CD-ROM), 2nd edn, eds. Knut Hofland, Anne Lindebjerg, Jørn Thunestvedt, The HIT Centre, University of Bergen, Norway.
SBC = Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English, Part 1. 2000. By John W. Du Bois, Wallace L. Chafe, Charles Meyer and Sandra A. Thompson. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium.
SBC – Part 1 used in Chapters 3 and 4
Fourteen files; 51 different speakers (precise word count not possible).
List of files, with some of the information given in the segment information file accompanying the corpus
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