Corpora: Freely accessible Corpus of American English

[Bill Fisher]

Ruth Möhlig wrote:

> I have two questions:
>
> 1) is there any freely accessible, fairly recent corpus of American English
> (preferrably both written and spoken and preferrably searchable with
> Wordsmith)?

  Check out: http://www.isip.msstate.edu/projects/switchboard/index.html.
This is a subset of transcriptions of the Switchboard corpus.

 - Bill F.