Linguistics: Text Corpus

Here you will find links to anything & everything to do with the use of language corpora. The links are categorised and annotated to facilitate browsing/searching.

A 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written

The Centre for Corpus Research supports the use of corpus analysis in research, teaching and learning.

This page provides an index to CHILDES corpora, organized by language group and data type.

These pages aim principally to gather information on specific languages, especially the "exotic" and lesser known ones.

This page offers short descriptions of the most widely known English language corpora. To find out more about any of these, click on the corpus title. This will take you to the homepage (or manual) of the corpus.

Affords access to a large set of lexical characteristics, along with behavioral data from visual lexical decision and naming studies of 40,481 words and 40,481 nonwords. From Washington University, St. Louis.

An international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources by: (i) developing consensus on best current practice for the digital archiving of language resources, and (ii) developing a network of interoperating repositories and services for housing and accessing such resources.

Uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.

The goal of TalkBank is to foster fundamental research in the study of human and animal communication. It will construct sample databases within each of the subfields studying communication. It will use these databases to advance the development of standards and tools for creating, sharing, searching, and commenting upon primary materials via networked computers.

Created by Mark Davies of Brigham Young University, this website allows you to quickly and easily search more than 100 million words of text of American English from 1923 to the present, as found in TIME magazine. You can see how words, phrases and grammatical constructions have increased or decreased in frequency and see how words have changed meaning over time.

A large lexical database of English. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept.

The major as well as the oldest representative organisation for phoneticians.