[Corpora-List] Query: Corpora of American and British English that can be compared?

[Laure Gardelle]

Many thanks for your replies, which are very helpful!

All the best

Laure

Eric Atwell <E.S.Atwell at leeds.ac.uk> a écrit :

> I agree with Adam and True Friend: LOB v Brown are the long-standing
> established corpora to compare UK v US English, from 1960s.
> BUT you asked for  " ... sufficiently close collection procedures  
> for the hits they return to be compared ..." whcih suggests you really
> want web-as-corpus collections gathered more recently by  
> web-crawlers? If so: World Wide English Corpus
> http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric/wwe.shtml
> includes 2M-word samples of UK English and US English, collected
> using SketchEngine's WebBootCat web-as-corpus harvester,
> for student exercises in comparing world varieties of English
>
> Eric Atwell, Leeds University
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Adam Kilgarriff wrote:
>
>> Dear Laure,
>> the straightforward answer is the 'Brown family' corpora - Brown and LOB
>> were compiled with just this kind of analysis in mind: they were both 1961
>> and more comparable data points are available for 1991 (FROWN and FLOB) and
>> (tho maybe this is British Englsih only) 1931, 1901 and 2006.
>>
>> You can do the comparisons easily and directly in the Sketch Engine, where
>> the data is already set up (includiung POS-tagged) and the 'Brown family'
>> corpus contains all the above except the 1901 part.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> On 18 December 2012 09:23, Laure Gardelle <laure.gardelle at ens-lyon.fr>
>> wrote:
>>      Dear colleagues,
>>
>>      For my research I need to compare one set of agreement patterns
>>      in American and British English.
>>      So would anyone know of two corpora (one for American English,
>>      the other for British English) that would have sufficiently
>>      close collection procedures for the hits they return to be
>>      compared (ie. for possible differences in proportion to be
>>      considered meaningful)?? Ideally I am looking for contemporary
>>      English, but if the data are a bit older, it is not a problem.
>>
>>      Many thanks in advance for any help with this!
>>
>>      Laure Gardelle
>>
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