A Linguistic ‘Time Capsule’: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English

Allen, Will; Beal, Joan C.; Corrigan, Karen P.; Maguire, Warren; Moisl, Hermann

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“…Here, our analysis thus assumes a functional definition of the variable. Allan et al 2007), as well as a new corpus, NECTE2 (The Newcastle Corpus of Tyneside English 2), which has been collected at Newcastle University over the last three years. Together, these corpora constitute the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (DECTE).…”

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Intensifiers on Tyneside

Barnfield

Buchstaller²

2010

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We report on longitudinal changes in the system of intensification in an innovative corpus that spans five decades of dialectal speech from North-East England. Our analyses allow us -for the first time in a British context -to trace the quantitative development in the variable across four generations. Longitudinal analysis across real and apparent time determines the effect of extralinguistic and intralinguistic variables on intensification in Tyneside and tests to what extent real time data corroborates trends reported from previous apparent time analyses. Long-term competition within the variable manifests itself in distinctive developmental trajectories: expansion -both proportionally within the variable as well as across adjectival categories -tends to follow one of three types of patterns, exemplified, respectively, by really, so and dead. Variant retraction, however, follows only one schema. Importantly, numerical decline in the system does not necessarily go hand in hand with a reduction in breadth of application.

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Intensifiers on Tyneside

Barnfield

Buchstaller²

2010

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“…The interviews feature one speaker (in TLS) or two speakers in self-selected pairs (in PVC and NECTE2) with a student interviewer. The interactions were semi-structured but speakers were encouraged to talk openly about their lives and the local dialect for around 30-60 minutes (Allen et al 2007).…”

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Canny good, orquite canny?

Childs

2016

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This document may differ from the final, published version of the research and has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies. To read and/or cite from the published version of the research, please visit the publisher's website (a subscription may be required.) Claire Childs (Newcastle University) AbstractThe word canny has long been associated with the dialects of the North East of England, most typically in its adjectival sense. However, it has four distinct functions (adjective, adverb, intensifier and modifier in quantifying expressions), which this paper tracks in a diachronic speech corpus. Although the intensifier (e.g. it's canny good) is documented in the Survey of English Dialects (Upton et al. 1994), it appears in the corpus later than expected with the profile of an incoming form. Results from a judgement task corroborate the corpus trends and show that people's intuitions about intensifier canny correlate with age as well as the semantics and position of the following adjective, in such a way that shows the intensifier is not fully delexicalised. The research highlights the value of combining production and perception data in establishing how the origins of a linguistic item affect its distribution in its new function.Keywords: language change; Tyneside; intensification; grammaticalisation; perception; judgement data; function; frequency 1 I gratefully acknowledge support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and would like to thank Isabelle Buchstaller, Karen Corrigan, Heike Pichler, Jennifer Smith, Jennifer Thorburn and Cathleen Waters for their feedback at various stages, the DECTE team for granting me use of the corpus, and Adam Mearns for additional assistance with the materials. Thank you to the audiences at Sociolinguistics Symposium 20 (Jyväskylä) and the LVC research groups at Newcastle University and the University of Toronto where aspects of this research were presented. I am also very grateful to the editor Marianne Hundt and three anonymous reviewers for their comments on earlier versions of this paper.

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“…NECTE is marked up in TEI‐conformant XML (Extensible Markup Language) syntax. The corpus team note that: ‘Adoption of TEI‐conformant XML requires no justification in principle as it is a world standard, but it can be an obstacle to users of the corpus in practice.’ (NECTE website, also Allen et al. 2007: 36).…”

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Corpus Linguistics in the UK: Resources for Sociolinguistic Research

Anderson

2008

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Sociolinguistics has always relied on authentic data, and is increasingly finding value in the methods and textual resources developed by corpus linguists. This article begins by surveying current activity in corpus linguistics in the UK in terms of publications, conferences and networks, and then outlines the range of research currently ongoing, with a particular focus on corpus resources that are readily available and likely to be of use to sociolinguists. This includes general corpora, specialized corpora, and corpora of regional or historical varieties, as well as tools and initiatives for standardization and data‐sharing, which aim to allow users to exploit corpora as fully as possible. The focus is largely on corpora of English, but corpora of other languages are also considered. The discussion treats corpora from the point of view of their availability and the provision of accompanying metadata, both issues central to effective sociolinguistic enquiry.

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A Linguistic ‘Time Capsule’: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English

Cited by 34 publications

References 17 publications

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