[Corpora-List] What is corpora and what is not?

[Mark Davies]

>> Even the newly appeared American Soap Operas corpus on Mark Davies site is still constructed and ultimately "high-brow". They're useful for arguing with high-brow users but don't adequately record the vernacular.

Maybe, but see:

http://corpus2.byu.edu/soap/overview.asp (comparison to the spoken portion of the BNC; in many respects, much more colloquial than the BNC spoken)
http://corpus2.byu.edu/soap/ (Soap Opera corpus itself; 100 million words)

Mark D.

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Mark Davies
Professor of Linguistics / Brigham Young University
http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu/

** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **
** Historical linguistics // Language variation **
** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **
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