The Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English is a one-million-word corpus of transcribed English compiled from materials collected between 1988 and 1994, which is made up of excerpts from a range of speakers who have lived in
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
since before the age of 10. The corpus was collected under the direction of linguist
Janet Holmes and includes broadcast transcripts as well as informal conversations, telephone conversations, lectures, and oral history interviews.
The corpus, which was distributed as part of the 1999
ICAME CD-ROM, has been used for a number of academic studies including those looking at morphology, pronoun use and language contact studies, as of the influence of
Māori
Māori or Maori can refer to:
Relating to the Māori people
* Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group
* Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand
* Māori culture
* Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the C ...
on NZ English.
References
External links
Corpus main website: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/corpora-default/corpora-wsc
{{Corpus linguistics
English corpora
New Zealand English
Applied linguistics
Linguistic research
Victoria University of Wellington
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