LINGUIST List 14.3013

Tue Nov 4 2003

FYI: Database of Oral L2 Corpora

Editor for this issue: Anne Clarke <annelinguistlist.org>

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1. fjm, Database of Oral L2 Corpora: German, Spanish, English

Database of Oral L2 Corpora: German, Spanish, English

As part of a research project at the University of Southampton in the
,UK, we have constructed a database of French Learner Language Oral
Corpora: http://www.flloc.soton.ac.uk/. This web-based database
contains a range of corpora of learners at various levels, and
includes digital soundfiles and transcripts in CHAT format (the
CHILDES transcription system) of all the data, as well as
morphosyntactic outputs for most of the transcripts. All the data is
freely downloadable from the site (provided the ground rules are
adhered to).

We are now considering extending the database to other languages,
initially German, Spanish and English, and would like to know how much
interest there is in the SLA community for databases of this kind. If
you are interested, please fill in the details below, and return to
F.J.Mylessoton.ac.uk, by 12 November 2004.

Name of corpus:

Location:

Contact details:

L1 of learners:

L2 of learners:

Task(s) used:

Level of learners:

Age of learners:

No. of learners:

Longitudinal or cross-sectional?

What is the nature of the data? (soundfiles, transcribed protocols,
analysis files etc)?

What formats have been used for transcription etc (e.g. the CHILDES
transcription conventions)?

Are the soundfiles (if any) in digital format?

Would you like your corpus to be included in an inventory of corpora?

Would you like your corpus to be considered for inclusion within the
FLLOC database?

Who currently holds copyright in the corpus?

Many thanks,

Florence Myles
Rosamond Mitchell
Sarah Rule

Dr Florence Myles
School of Modern Languages
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1QF

tel: 023 80592269
fax: 023 80593288
e-mail: fjmsoton.ac.uk