<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi everyone,<br><br></div>I've been talking with some people at Pearson about getting access to the Longman Spoken American Corpus, but so far haven't had any luck. Does anyone have any advice about how to get ahold of the corpus? Or, barring that, does anyone know of a large-ish (>= 2 million words) corpus of spoken English, preferably American, balanced across different registers of conversational interaction, with documentation about the speakers' age, ethnicity, sex, and level of education? I've been working with the Santa Barbara corpus, but need a larger corpus to get more robust collocational data.<br>
<br></div>In case anyone's interested, I'm tagging the lines or sentences of the corpus for whether they involve moralizing (accusing, blaming, apologizing, holding to account, etc.) of any sort. The goal is to get a rough map of who moralizes and in what sorts of interactions, and to have a database of real moral utterances for testing philosophical theories about the function of moral language.<br>
<br></div>Thanks!<br></div>Ian Olasov<br></div>Graduate Center, City University of New York<br><br></div>