The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT) is a data set of samples of spoken English that was compiled in 1993 from tape recorded and transcribed conversations by teens between the ages of 13 and 17 in schools throughout London, England. This

corpus Corpus is Latin for "body". It may refer to: Linguistics * Text corpus, in linguistics, a large and structured set of texts * Speech corpus, in linguistics, a large set of speech audio files * Corpus linguistics, a branch of linguistics Music * ...

, which has been tagged for

part of speech In grammar, a part of speech or part-of-speech (abbreviated as POS or PoS, also known as word class or grammatical category) is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) that have similar grammatical properties. Words that are as ...

using the CLAWS 6 tagset, is one of the

linguistic research Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

projects housed at the

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in Norway.

Resultant research

Linguistic analysis In the study of language, description or descriptive linguistics is the work of objectively analyzing and describing how language is actually used (or how it was used in the past) by a speech community. François & Ponsonnet (2013). All acad ...

based on COLT has appeared in the book ''Trends in Teenage Talk'' and subsequent journal articles, including, for example, work tracking ''innit'', ''cos'', degree modifiers, extenders, the use of taboo words,Stenström, Anna-Brita. 2006. Taboo words in teenage talk: London and Madrid girls' conversations compared. ''Spanish in Context''. 3(1), Jan 2006, p. 115-138. and negation.

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