Corpora: Longman Learners' Corpus

From: Michael R. Klieman (klieman@ling.ucsd.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 23 2001 - 02:42:16 MET

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    Hello all,

    I have two questions:

    There is a corpus of English as a second language learners' essays called
    the Longman Learners' Corpus. Hiroyuki Oshita used it in his dissertation
    and some subsequent papers (1997, 1998, 2000) to analyze the acquisition of
    unaccusatives by ESL students. I am replicating his work, and would like
    to get a hold of the LLC, but have not been able to find it
    anywhere. Longman (a dictionary company) has reference to it on their
    website, but won't respond to my emails. Does anyone know anything about
    the LLC, and how to get access to it?

    Second question: Does anyone know of a similar corpus of ESL learners'
    English, either spoken or written?

    Thank you all for your time,

    Michael Klieman
    Linguistics, University of California, San Diego
    klieman@ling.ucsd.edu



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