CONVENTIONAL INDIRECTNESS STRATEGIES ON REQUEST USED BY MALE AND FEMALE SPEAKERS IN SPOKEN BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS

Detecting gross alignment errors in the Spoken British National Corpus

The paper presents methods for evaluating the accuracy of alignments between transcriptions and audio recordings. The methods have been applied to the Spoken British National Corpus, which is an extensive and varied corpus of natural unscripted speech. Early results show good agreement with human ratings of alignment accuracy. The methods also provide an indication of the location of likely ali...

Introduction: Compiling and analysing the Spoken British National Corpus 2014

For over twenty years, the British National Corpus has been one of the most widely known and used corpora. It is almost impossible to attend an international corpus linguistics conference such as Corpus Linguistics, ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English), AACL (American Association for Corpus Linguistics) or APCLC (Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference) witho...

Compiling and analysing the Spoken British National Corpus 2014

Test-taking Strategies Used by Successful Iranian Male and Female University Entrance Exam EFL Applicants

This study aimed at identifying the most frequent test-taking strategies used by successful Iranian male and female university entrance exam EFL applicants. To this end, 150 English major male and female freshman students who got admission to three reputable state universities of Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tehran were selected conveniently and purposively. The model used in this study was developed b...

The Creation of a Spoken Sub-Corpus from the British National Corpus for Comparative Purposes

The British National Corpus (henceforth BNC) is one of the most frequently consulted corpora in linguistic research. While the use of this corpus is continuously on the increase, it appears that most BNC-related research work has exploited the corpus in its entirety, i.e. taking the corpus as a whole in analysing specific features or comparing with a different reference corpus. Despite the fact...