The British
component of ICE is based at the Survey of English Usage, University
College London.
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The British ICE corpus (ICE-GB) was released in 1998 and is
now available. The corpus is POS-tagged and
parsed.
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Contact:
Professor Bas Aarts,
Director,
The Survey of
English Usage,
University
College London,
Gower
St,
London WC1E 6BT,
UK
Email:b.aarts@ucl.ac.uk
Listen to
British English
A selection
of sound
files from the corpus
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British English displays considerable dialectal
variation, most noticeably between the north of England and
the south-east. In Scotland, around 60,000 people speak Scots
Gaelic. In Wales, around 26% of the population claim to speak
Welsh. Many immigrant languages, including Urdu, Hindi, and
Punjabi, are spoken in major cities. Population: c59
million
Reading
Hughes, A. & P.
Trudgill (1996) English Accents and Dialects: An
Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of British
English. 3rd edn. London: Arnold.
Milroy, J & L. Milroy (eds.) (1993) Real
English: The Grammar of English Dialects in the British
Isles. London: Longman.
Trudgill, P. (ed.) (1985) Language in
the British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge University
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