LOCNEC
| title | LOCNEC |
| subtitle | Louvain Corpus of Native English Conversation |
| creator(s) | Sylvie De Cock |
| research center(s) | Centre for English Corpus Linguistics |
| short description | The Louvain Corpus of Native English Conversation (LOCNEC) is a corpus of informal interviews with British university students, which is the native counterpart of the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI). |
| description | The Louvain Corpus of Native English Conversation (LOCNEC) is a corpus of informal interviews with British university students, all native speakers of English. The corpus contains 50 interviews made up of three parts: a warming-up activity, in which learners were given a few minutes to talk about one of three set topics, a free informal discussion which was conceived as the main part of the interview, and a picture description. It corresponds to 13 hours of recording. The corpus can be used as a native counterpart of the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI), since it has been compiled according to the same design criteria and transcribed with the same conventions. |
| type(s) | oral |
| language(s) | English |
| format(s) | Text file (.txt) |
| corpus size | About 170,000 words, of which some 120,000 were produced by the interviewees |
| date | 1995 |
| keywords | British English , informal interviews |
| description languages | English |
| contact | Sylvie De Cock <sylvie.decock@uclouvain.be> |
| corpus reference | De Cock, Sylvie. 2004. Preferred sequences of words in NS and NNS speech. Belgian Journal of English Language and Literatures (BELL), New Series 2: 225-246. |