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Hello All,<BR>
I am comparing the diachronic change of spoken and written English up to this point and was wondering if such corpus exists.<BR>
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I know a recording is a pretty recent technology so it won't be comparable to Switchboard corpus but <BR>
even movie/TV scripts of late 19th century or early 20th century would be most helpful.<BR>
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Anybody have access to movie and/or TV scripts or plays written in 1850-1950s <BR>
or <BR>
know of the existence of such corpora?<BR>
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Your help is greatly appreciated.<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
Ji Won LEE<BR>
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