British English
The Penn Parsed Corpus of Modern British English: First Parsing Results and Analysis
... We present the first parsing results for the Penn Parsed Corpus of Modern British English (PPCMBE) (Kroch et al., 2010), showing that it can be parsed at a few points lower in F-score than the Penn Treebank ...
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Speaker gender and salience in sociolinguistic speech perception: GOOSE fronting in Standard Southern British English
... Research in sociophonetics has demonstrated that people are sensitive to sociolinguistic variation when perceiving spoken language. It has shown that the socio-indexical information contained in the visual appearance of ...
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British ‘Bollocks’ versus American ‘Jerk’: do native British English speakers swear more –or differently compared to American English speakers?
... the British English speakers did not report more frequent swearing in various situations than the American English speakers, although they tended to swear more with ...that British work ...
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SUBTLEX UK: a new and improved word frequency database for British English
... for British English, based on television ...the British National ...the British Lexicon Project (Tables 4 and 5). The British subtitle frequencies were also better for pre- dicting the ...
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A corpus-based study on A MAN IS A LION in Mandarin Chinese and British English
... for British English were collected from the British National Corpus ...and English respectively, the study has found supportive evidence for HUMAN BEINGS ARE ANIMALS by generalizing 14 lion ...
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Mapping lexical dialect variation in British English using Twitter
... communication, which deposits massive amounts of regionalized language data online every day. Aside from early studies based on corpora of letters to the editor downloaded from newspaper websites (e.g., Grieve, 2009), ...
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F2 slope as a perceptual cue for the front-back contrast in Standard Southern British English
... the English variety of Standard Southern British English (SSBE), where /uː/ has shifted from the back to the front area of the vowel space and is now realized with higher midpoint F2 values than ...
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Computer Produced Representation of Dialectal Variation: Initial Fricatives in Southern British English
... COMPUTER PRODUCED REPRESENTATION OF DIALECTAL VARIATION INITLAL FRICATIVES IN SOUTHERN BRITISH ENGLISH CC~fl~TER PRODUCED REPRES~EATION OF DIALECTAL VARIATION INITIAL FRICATIVES IN SOUTHERN BRITISH ~G[.] ...
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A Corpus of Spontaneous Multi-party Conversation in Bosnian Serbo-Croatian and British English
... In this paper we present a corpus of audio and video recordings of spontaneous, face-to-face multi-party conversation in two languages. Freely available high quality recordings of mundane, non-institutional, multi-party ...
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Sex differences in voice onset time : a developmental study of phonetic context effects in British English
... There are relatively few studies documenting sex differences in VOT, and some report sex differences in VOT for both adults and children (Koenig, 2000; Ryalls et al., 1997; Swartz, 1992; Whiteside and Marshall, 2001). ...
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Integrating syntactic theory and variationist analysis : The structure of negative indefinites in regional dialects of British English
... Negative concord is among the most-studied morpho-syntactic phenomena in variationist sociolinguistics (e.g. Labov 1972a; Smith 2001; Anderwald 2002; Kortmann and Szmrecsanyi 2004; Anderwald 2005; Szmrecsanyi 2013), ...
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Integrating syntactic theory and variationist analysis : The structure of negative indefinites in regional dialects of British English
... Toronto English, suggesting that the indefinite can be in two positions: the “higher domain” (NegP and higher) or the “lower domain” (below ...in British varieties of English (Burnett & ...
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Measuring Syntactic Difference in British English
... ICE-GB reports the place of birth of each speaker, which is the best available approximation to which dialect a speaker uses. As a simple, objective parti- tioning, the speakers were divided into 11 geograph- ical ...
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British English infants segment words only with exaggerated infantdirected speech stimuli
... as British parents may be more cautious in reporting their children’s performance (Houston-Price, Mather & Sakkalou, 2007), whereas American parents might be over-estimating their child’s knowledge (Tomasello ...
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Explicitness and ellipsis as features of conversational style in British English and Ecuadorian Spanish
... We will review three sets of findings in interlanguage development which exemplify that diversity: first, we will review evidence in favor of a vector model of second language developmen[r] ...
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Grammatical Analysis by Computer of the Lancaster Oslo/Bergen (LOB) Corpus of British English Texts
... Research has been under way at the Unit for Computer Research on the ~hglish Language at the University of Lancaster, England, to develop a suite of computer programs which provide a det[r] ...
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Discourse markers in Saudi English and British English : a comparative investigation of the use of English discourse markers
... Other corpus-driven studies were undertaken by Müller (2004; 2005). Her studies compared the use of English discourse markers by German non-native speakers of English to American native speakers. She ...
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Gender effects on writing style in British English?
... The student group was highly heterogeneous in terms of linguistic background. Students were from a diversity of nationalities with differences in native languages to match. Two spoke Russian, four spoke different ...
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The Inner Circle vs. the Outer Circle or British English vs. American English
... We also carried out a multi-factorial analysis, in which not only the effects of each factor but also the interactions among the factors are statistically analyzed. The multi-factorial analyses of linguistic data are ...
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The phonematics, phonotactics and para phonotactics of southern Standard British English
... K., Patterns of language, Linguistics, Papers in General, and Applied ýDescriptive Longmans Linguistic Library, 1966.. in rules of English.[r] ...
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