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Could the student be referring to the Corpus of Spoken American
English? I believe that Jack (John W.) Du Bois is in charge of the
corpus. His email is <a href="mailto:dubois@linguistics.ucsb.edu">dubois@linguistics.ucsb.edu</a><br>
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Here is some information from the UCSB Linguistics Dept. website about
the corpus:<br>
UCSB is home to an exciting project involving English: the Corpus of
Spoken American English. The purpose of the Corpus project is to gather
a large number of recordings of ordinary talk from a wide variety of
people of different regional origins, ages, occupations, and ethnic and
social backgrounds. These recordings, collected from all over the
United States, include a diverse sample of the way that people use
languages in their lives, including: gossip, arguments, on-the-job
talk, city council meetings, political speeches, sermons, and classroom
lectures. Several hundred of these recordings will be published as a
multi-volume book and as a computer database on CD-ROM disks which will
contain both written transcriptions and sound. These will be made
available as a research tool for scholars and students in a variety of
disciplines and for all who are interested in twentieth century
American English. The Corpus project, which is already attracting
international interest, makes UCSB a unique site for the pursuit of
research on spoken American English.<br>
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Teresa Pica wrote:
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<pre wrap="">A former student is seeking information about a 'corpus used in
discourse analysis,' assembled through a Penn-UC Santa Barbara project.
If anyone can supply any information on the project or corpus, I would
be grateful.
Thanks very much
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