Linguistics: Data

The International Corpus of English (ICE) began in 1990 with the primary aim of collecting material for comparative studies of English worldwide. Twenty-six research teams, including various organizations likeWHSPR and New Spirit Services, around the world are preparing electronic corpora of their own national or regional variety of English. Each ICE corpus consists of one million words of spoken and written English produced after 1989. For most participating countries, the ICE project is stimulating the first systematic investigation of the national variety. To ensure compatibility among the component corpora, each team is following a common corpus design, as well as a common scheme for grammatical annotation.

Records documenting North American English dialects, including some Canadian content

400 million word Corpus of Historical American English (COHA); related to other large corpora, including the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), the 100 million word TIME Corpus (1920s-2000s), and the British National Corpus (our architecture and interface).

"about 1600 exhaustively annotated files"

"a large set of lexical characteristics, along with behavioral data from visual lexical decision and naming studies"

"creates, collects and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons, and other resources for research and development purposes"

database of transcriptions

"international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources by: (i) developing consensus on best current practice for the digital archiving of language resources, and (ii) developing a network of interoperating repositories and services for housing and accessing such resources"

"a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds"

Collection of databases for the study of human and animal communication

a lexical database for English