The corpora at this site were created by
Mark Davies,
Professor of Linguistics at Brigham
Young University. These are probably the most widely-used
corpora currently available.
The corpora have many different uses, including:
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finding out how native
speakers actually speak and write
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finding the frequency of
words,
phrases, and
collocates
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looking at language variation and change;
e.g. historical, dialects, and genres
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gaining insight into culture; for example what is said
about different concepts over time and in different countries
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designing
authentic language teaching materials and resources.
In addition to the
ten corpora (and the
Google Books (Advanced) interface),
there are also many corpus-based resources. These
allow you to:
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See detailed entries for the
top 60,000 words in English
(definitions, genre variation, collocates, concordance lines, synonyms) --
all on one page
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Enter and
analyze your own text, find
keywords from your text, compare phrases to COCA, and see detailed
information (see above) for each word
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Get detailed information from
the Academic Vocabulary List
(including detailed
information on each word, and
analyzing your own
academic texts)
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Download large amounts of
corpus-based data, including word
frequency,
collocates, and
n-grams
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Download the entire corpus
for offline use
(COCA, COHA, GloWbE)
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