Re: [Corpora-List] corpus of Welsh English???

From: Briony Williams (b.williams@bangor.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Mar 13 2007 - 13:05:01 MET

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    Eric Atwell wrote:
    > Jessica,
    >
    > I assume "Welsh English" means English spoken by Welsh people,
    > not some sort of hybrid language mix of Welsh and English?!
    >
    > If so, maybe the Polytechnic of Wales corpus will do, see

    There's also Rod Walters' work on "A study of the phonology of Rhondda
    Valleys English (1995-9)" - see:

    http://resnt1.isd.glam.ac.uk/rhondda_valleys_english/

    (This work focuses on adults rather than children)

    Best regards

    Briony Williams

    >
    > Clive Souter, A Short Handbook to the Polytechnic of Wales Corpus
    > Leeds University, 1989
    >
    > http://khnt.hit.uib.no/icame/manuals/pow.htm
    >
    > "... The corpus was originally collected between 1978-84 for a child
    > language development project to study the use of various
    > syntactico-semantic
    > constructs in children between the ages of six and twelve. A sample of
    > approximately 120 children in this age range from the Pontypridd area in
    > South Wales was selected, and divided into four cohorts of 30, each
    > within three months of the ages 6, 8, 10, and 12. These cohorts were
    > subdivided by sex (B,G) and socio-economic class (A,B,C,D)... "
    >
    > I hope this is of use to you!
    >
    >
    > Eric Atwell, Senior Lecturer, Language research group, School of
    > Computing Faculty of Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, Leeds LS2 9JT,
    > England
    > TEL: 0113-3435430 FAX: 0113-3435468 WWW/email: google Eric Atwell
    >
    >
    >
    > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, j.degroote@lancaster.ac.uk wrote:
    >
    >> Dear all,
    >>
    >> I am writing my dissertation right now and I am looking for several
    >> corpora. However, I can't find any corpus of Welsh English. Has anyone
    >> ever heard of any such corpus?
    >>
    >> Thanks a lot,
    >>
    >> Best regards,
    >>
    >> Jessica Degroote 

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