LING 4901W: Capstone Seminar in Linguistics

Corpora of spoken language archived in the Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals (BAS). Most resources marked with 'free for science' (ACA) or 'public' (PUB) can be downloaded for free by academic users.

Formerly the "BYU Corpora," a portal to a number of English-language corpora including: iWeb: The Intelligent Web-based Corpus, News on the Web (NOW), Global Web-Based English, Wikipedia Corpus,
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA),
Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), The TV Corpus, The Movie Corpus, and the Corpus of American Soap Operas

Each ICE corpus consists of one million words of spoken and written English produced after 1989.

"OLAC, the Open Language Archives Community, is an 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."

The materials on this site comprise audio recordings illustrating phonetic structures from over 200 languages with phonetic transcriptions, plus scans of original field notes where relevant.