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Language is never, ever, ever random

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“Language is never, ever, ever random” (Kilgarriff, 2005), not in its usage, not in its acquisition, and not in its processing. (Nick C. Ellis, 2017, p. 41) Nick C. Ellis (2017). Cognition, Corpora, and Computing: Triangulating Research in Usage-Based Language Learning. Language Learning 67(S1), pp. 40–65

Corpus of North American Spoken English (CoNASE)

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The Corpus of North American Spoken English (CoNASE), a 1.25-billion-word corpus of geolocated automatic speech-to-text transcripts, is now available in a beta version. URL http://cc.oulu.fi/~scoats/CoNASE.html for more information. The corpus was created from 301,847 ASR transcripts from 2,572 YouTube channels, corresponding to 154,041 hours of video. The size of the corpus is 1,252,066,371 word tokens. … Read more

Native & learner language in interviews

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This talk discusses some of our findings in Pérez-Paredes, P., & Sánchez Tornel, M. (2015). A multidimensional analysis of learner language during story reconstruction in interviews. In M. Callies & S. Götz (Eds.), Learner Corpora in Language Testing and Assessment. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.   A contrastive analysis of native and non-native speaker interviews from Pascual … Read more

CFP #Grammar of #genres and #styles: which approaches to prefer? 16 Jan 2015

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Grammar of genres and styles: which approaches to prefer? ConSciLa (Confrontations en Sciences du Langage),Paris, France,Friday 16 January 2015(the place will be announced later) Organization———–Thierry Charnois (University of Paris 13, LIPN),Sascha Diwersy (Universität zu Köln),Meri Larjavaara (Åbo Akademi),Dominique Legallois (University of Caen, Crisco) Call for participation—————– Modern syntactic research consists generally of studies that are … Read more