Corpora: Plea for conversation transcription & sound files

[Amanda Schiffrin]

Dear All,

I would be very grateful if you could provide information 
about any of the following:

(1) The availability of corpora of *general* conversation, 
    of 2-3 adult, native speakers of (preferably British) 
    English.  I require both the orthographic transcription 
    and the original sound files.  (Telephone conversations 
    may well prove ideal for my purposes.)

(2) Any annotated versions of these transcriptions if marked 
    up at one or more of the following levels:

    · Speech acts
    · Topic shifts
    · Intention
    · Higher level goals/plans

(3) Other researchers working in similar or related areas 
    of interest.

I am already aware of the following resources (although I'm
not too sure about distribution and availability):

 · LDC's Switchboard/DAMSL
 · London-Lund Corpus
 · Some extracts of the BNC
 · COLT (although not strictly adult conversation and 
   part of the BNC above)

(Other corpora and annotation schemes such as MapTask, Coconut,
Verbmobil and the like are too task-oriented for my needs.)

Thank you very much in advance for your help.

Best wishes,

Mandy

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