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The following software may be ordered from the Survey of English Usage. Click on the links below for details and prices.

The British Component of The International Corpus of English (ICE-GB) Release 2

1 million words of fully-parsed and annotated contemporary British English (84,000 trees).
60% spoken, 40% written.
Sociolinguistic information on texts, speakers and authors.
Searchable with ICECUP. [1]
Order ICE-GB Release 2
Order ICE-GB R2 Sound (300 spoken texts, 75 hours) [2]
Download Sample Corpus

The Diachronic Corpus of Present-Day Spoken English (DCPSE)

800,000 words (87,000 trees) of fully-parsed and annotated spoken British English from the 1950s to 1990s.
Sociolinguistic information on texts, speakers and authors.
Searchable with ICECUP. [1]
Order DCPSE
Download Sample Corpus

“The second release of the ICE-GB corpus with accompanying sound files, the first release of the DCPSE corpus and ICECUP Version 3.1 deserve serious examination from those involved in all flavours of corpus linguistics. They offer considerable opportunities for the analysis of recent language change in British English and for the analysis of discourse patterns (linguistic and extra-linguistic) from a syntactical perspective. They demonstrate how the Survey of English Usage continues to make new contributions to the use of corpora in linguistic analysis and theory.” - O’Donnell (2008).

Notes

[1] DCPSE and ICE-GB Release 2 are supplied with ICECUP 3.1. ICECUP is compatible with all versions of Windows. You can try the software on your computer by clicking on the links above.

[2] ICE-GB R2 Sound is ordered separately. Therefore if you want to explore ICE-GB and play the sound you will need to complete both order forms.

The Internet Grammar of English

Landmarks in English Grammar – The Eighteenth Century

More information about these titles are available on request. Please email the Survey for more information.