The spoken BNC2014: Designing and building a spoken Corpus of everyday conversations

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 319-344

  Love, Robbie ^a   Dembry, Claire ^b   Hardie, Andrew ^a   Brezina, Vaclav ^a   McEnery, Tony ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corpus construction; Spoken BNC2014; Spoken corpora; Transcription

Indexed keywords

EID: 85038378092     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.22.3.02lov     Document Type: Article

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