This paper describes the BE06 Corpus, a one million word reference corpus of general written British English that was designed to be comparable to the Brown family of corpora. After providing a description of the Brown sampling frame, and giving the rationale for building a new corpus, the process of building the BE06 is elaborated upon, with reference to collecting previously published texts from internet sources, defining "British" authors and enabling accessibility of the corpus. Three studies of lexical frequency using BE06 and comparable corpora (LOB, FLOB and BLOB) are then carried out. These involve a comparison of the 20 most frequent lexical items, an examination of pronoun usage, and an investigation of keywords derived from compa...
This paper has two related purposes. First, our goal is to explain the results of recent research on...
In this article we undertake selective quantitative analyses of the demographically-sampled spoken E...
As corpus building is an activity that takes times and costs money, readers may wish to use ready-ma...
This paper is a brief decription of the British National Corpus (BNC) project, which is a collaborat...
This paper explains the rationale for a new corpus being assembled at Lancaster University to comple...
Resulting from inter-disciplinary research with Linguistics, this book addressed limitations of earl...
The aim of this Magister Degree Project has been to investigate if can corpora be used to investigat...
This book presents a richly illustrated, hands-on discussion of one of the fastest growing fields in...
The British National Corpora are two large corpora of British English representing the 1990s and 201...
This thesis presents a twofold investigation of the use of Americanisms in the lexis of spoken Briti...
The paper presents a comparison of tag frequencies in two matching one-million word reference corpor...
Counts of letters and words have been made from various bodies of text over the years. Perhaps the ...
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Our research focuses on two aspects of the evolution of contemporary spoken core vocabulary in Briti...
© 2020 Tomsk State University. All rights reserved. The aim of the research is to review the milesto...
This paper has two related purposes. First, our goal is to explain the results of recent research on...
In this article we undertake selective quantitative analyses of the demographically-sampled spoken E...
As corpus building is an activity that takes times and costs money, readers may wish to use ready-ma...
This paper is a brief decription of the British National Corpus (BNC) project, which is a collaborat...
This paper explains the rationale for a new corpus being assembled at Lancaster University to comple...
Resulting from inter-disciplinary research with Linguistics, this book addressed limitations of earl...
The aim of this Magister Degree Project has been to investigate if can corpora be used to investigat...
This book presents a richly illustrated, hands-on discussion of one of the fastest growing fields in...
The British National Corpora are two large corpora of British English representing the 1990s and 201...
This thesis presents a twofold investigation of the use of Americanisms in the lexis of spoken Briti...
The paper presents a comparison of tag frequencies in two matching one-million word reference corpor...
Counts of letters and words have been made from various bodies of text over the years. Perhaps the ...
I am delighted to have the opportunity to visit this Association for the first time. As far as 1 kno...
Our research focuses on two aspects of the evolution of contemporary spoken core vocabulary in Briti...
© 2020 Tomsk State University. All rights reserved. The aim of the research is to review the milesto...
This paper has two related purposes. First, our goal is to explain the results of recent research on...
In this article we undertake selective quantitative analyses of the demographically-sampled spoken E...
As corpus building is an activity that takes times and costs money, readers may wish to use ready-ma...