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The general goal of this chapter is to outline the models and methods underpinning the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (NECTE), created by the amalgamation of two separate corpora of recorded speech from the same geographical location. The earliest of these was collected in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of the Tyneside Linguistic Survey (TLS) funded by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) (see Strang, 1968; Pellowe et al., 1972; Pellowe and Jones, 1978; and Jones-Sargent, 1983). The more recent of the two was created between 1991 and 1994 for a project entitled Phonological Variation and Change in Contemporary Spoken English (PVC), which was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (see Milroy et al., 1997). More specifically, the chapter addresses four topics: (i) the objectives of the NECTE enhancement programme and the original aims of the TLS and PVC projects that are its foundation; (ii) the initial state of the sources on which the NECTE corpus is built; (iii) procedures for the amalgamation of these sources; and (iv) projected further developments of the resultant corpus and preliminary linguistic analyses of it.
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CLAWS4, part-of-speech tagger for English (UCREL): http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel/
NECTE: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/NECTEoXygen XML editor: http://www.oxygenxml.com/
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Xaira (Oxford University Computing Service): http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/xaira/
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Allen, W., Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Maguire, W., Moisl, H.L. (2007). A Linguistic ‘Time Capsule’: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English. In: Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Moisl, H.L. (eds) Creating and digitizing language corpora. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230223202_2
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