Linguistics

A collection of corpora created by Professor Mark Davies at Brigham Young University. Each corpus provides information on how native speakers actually speak and write, language variation, bibliometrics, and the design of language teaching material and resources. The site provides direct access to the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and NGram viewers.

The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written.

Compiled in the 1960's, the Brown Corpus was the first computerized corpus in existence.

This is a collection of French language corpora. It includes spoken, written and a variety of other more specialized corpuses. (Website is in French)

The International Corpus of English (ICE) began in 1990 with the primary aim of collecting material for comparative studies of English worldwide. Twenty-four research teams 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.

The Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (CECL) specializes in the collection and use of corpora for linguistic and pedagogical purposes.

This corpus of 450 million words of American English is maintained by Brigham Young University.

The Survey of English Usage carries out research in English language Corpus Linguistics, and was the first centre in Europe to undertake this type of research. From its inception in 1959, the Survey collected samples of naturally-occurring language for the purposes of description and analysis.

The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.