TY - JOUR
T1 - The making of a BNC customised spoken corpus for comparative purposes
AU - Lam, Phoenix
N1 - Funding Information:
The work described in this paper was substantially supported by grants from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Project No. B–Q714). I am deeply indebted to Prof. Winnie Cheng and Prof. Martin Warren for their generous permission to let me use the Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English prior to its completion and publication. I would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on an earlier version of the paper. Any errors that remain are mine.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2009 Edinburgh University Press. All rights reserved.
PY - 2009/11
Y1 - 2009/11
N2 - Although the British National Corpus (BNC) is one of the most popular resources for linguistic research, only a small number of studies generate results from user-selected texts of the corpus, despite the fact that the BNC is designed with the intention of letting researchers choose specific texts to build their own sub-corpora (Burnage and Dunlop, 1993). This paper reports on the process of building a tailor-made spoken corpus out of the BNC for comparative purposes and attempts to address the practical issues involved in selecting specific texts from the BNC spoken sub-section for one's individual needs. It would, thus, be of particular interest and relevance to those who wish to use (parts of) existing corpora for contrastive research. It is hoped that the issues raised in this paper could serve as a note of caution for future sub-corpus compilation from existing corpora, especially with regard to the BNC.
AB - Although the British National Corpus (BNC) is one of the most popular resources for linguistic research, only a small number of studies generate results from user-selected texts of the corpus, despite the fact that the BNC is designed with the intention of letting researchers choose specific texts to build their own sub-corpora (Burnage and Dunlop, 1993). This paper reports on the process of building a tailor-made spoken corpus out of the BNC for comparative purposes and attempts to address the practical issues involved in selecting specific texts from the BNC spoken sub-section for one's individual needs. It would, thus, be of particular interest and relevance to those who wish to use (parts of) existing corpora for contrastive research. It is hoped that the issues raised in this paper could serve as a note of caution for future sub-corpus compilation from existing corpora, especially with regard to the BNC.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85055405913
U2 - 10.3366/E174950320900029X
DO - 10.3366/E174950320900029X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85055405913
SN - 1749-5032
VL - 4
SP - 167
EP - 188
JO - Corpora
JF - Corpora
IS - 2
ER -