Corpus Documentation

The corpus is now available open access for non-commercial research and teaching purposes. 

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The following sources provide more information about corpus design procedures and final composition.

• Overview of transcription conventions (more details forthcoming in the user manual)

• Hanks, E., McEnery, T., Egbert, J., Larsson, T., Holmberg, A. J., Biber, D., Reppen, R., Baker, P., Bottini, R., Brezina, V., Brookes, G., & Clarke, I. (in press). Introducing the Lancaster-Northern Arizona Corpus of American Spoken English (LANA-CASE). Corpora. A pre-release version of the article can be found here (we would appreciate if corpus users could cite this article when using the corpus)

• Hanks, E., McEnery, T., Egbert, J., Larsson, T., Biber, D., Reppen, R., Baker, P., Brezina, V., Brookes, G., Clarke, I., & Bottini, R. (2024). Building a spoken corpus of conversational American English: Challenges and innovations in corpus design. Research in Corpus Linguistics, 12(2), 24-44. https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.12.02.03

• Hanks, E., McEnery, T., Egbert, J., & Larsson, T. (under contract). User manual for the Lancaster-Northern Arizona Corpus of American Spoken English (LANA-CASE). Applied Linguistics Press.

• Hanks, E., Egbert, J., Biber, D., Larsson, T., & McEnery, T. (under contract). Designing and evaluating the Lancaster-Northern Arizona Corpus of American Spoken English (LANA-CASE). Routledge.

Several studies have been carried out using a 4.3-million-word subset of LANA-CASE. These articles are forthcoming in a special issue of Corpora.

• Larsson, T.,  Biber, D., Kim, T., & Holmberg, A. J. (in press). Is casual conversation linguistically similar to other spoken registers?

• Põldvere, N. & De Felice, R. (in press). How do Americans give and receive advice in casual conversation? A corpus pragmatics study.

• Baker, P. (in press). and I was like wait what? The language of Gen Z Americans. [watch a video summary here]

• Law, J. (in press). Neologizing in American and British spoken English: The case of complex verb formation.