The Oxford Children’s Corpus: Using a Children’s Corpus in Lexicography1

Abstract

This p ap er p resents the Oxford Children's Corp us, a 30-million-token corp us of texts written for children aged 5-14. A comp arison of keywords

Working memory, reading ability and the effects of distance and typicality on anaphor resolution in children

“…Exemplars were embedded in 16 experimental texts (see Table 1 ). The typical and atypical antecedents did not differ in length ( t < 1; p > .6) or child frequency using ratings from written texts for children from the Oxford Children's Corpus (Wild, Kilgraff, & Tugwell, 2012 ; t (14) = 1.48, p = .16).…”

The Sketch Engine: ten years on

“…So are producers of children's dictionaries. The Education division of Oxford University Press has created the Oxford Children's Corpus (Wild et al 2013), comprising both material written for children (largely stories, many being titles published by OUP) and stories written by children. This second part resulted from a competition led by the top UK disc jockey Chris Evans, who, from his show on BBC Radio 2, invited children to write a 500-word story and send it into him.…”

Construir para deconstruir y volver a construir: elaboración colaborativa de un diccionario escolar de ciencias

“…Desde el año 2011, un equipo de Oxford University Press, junto con el Lexical Computing Departament de Oxford University, está llevando a cabo experiencias muy novedosas en la construcción de diccionarios para niños a partir de corpus reales escritos por ellos mismos. Así, un subcorpus del Oxford Children's Corpus (OCC) -el Beebox-está constituido por escritos de unas 500 palabras elaboradas por niños y niñas distribuidos en tres niveles de edades (5-8 años, 9-10 años y más de 11 años) sobre un tema libre (Wild et al, 2011(Wild et al, y 2013. La BBC Radio 2 organiza anualmente un concurso de historias cortas escritas por niños de 5 a 13 años.…”

“…Los títulos son reveladores: Oxford Very First Dictionary, Oxford First Dictionary, Mon premier Larousse: le dictionnaire de 4-7 ans, Mon premier dictionnaire: le Robert Benjamin 6-8 ans, etc. ; y también especializados, como: S Maths Dictionary for kids (Eather, 2013) o Science Dictionary for kids (Westphal, 2009). 3.…”