Linguistic Resources
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Writing term papers | Structuring & writing your term paper | Writing academic texts is something every student has to learn. Luckily, there is an abundance of tutorials how to write a term paper and you do not have to reinvent the wheel as most papers follow a relatively simple structure. This section contains a handpicked list of resources that help you structure and write your paper. |
Retrieving and handling secondary literature | This page contains a collection of links related to the retrieval and handling of secondary literature (including links to tutorials and recommended software). |
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Further helpful resources | This page contains a collection of useful links. Are you looking for
idiomatic expressions that are commonly used in the register of
research articles? Then the Academic Phrasebank is perfect for you! It
contains a collection of phraseological units that are commonly used in
academic English.
These are grouped by communicative purpose and section
of the research article. |
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Quick Links | BNCweb (on eng-ling.uni-bamberg.de, CQPweb Interface) | You can access the BNC with your BA-Account. No registration required. |
Corpora hosted at the Chair of English Linguistics (COCA, COHA, NottDeuYTSch, GloWbE) | In a first step, you are required to authenticate with your BA-Account. In a second step, you have to either login or sign up for an account for the corpus platform. You must use your @stud.uni-bamberg.de or @uni-bamberg.de e-mail when signing up. If you encounter any problems, please contact Fabian Vetter. |
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Corpora @ SketchEngine.eu | The SketchEngine is a commercial corpus interface which was primarily developed with the needs of lexicographers in mind. What's unique about SE is that it features some (sadly rather opaque) algorithms for investigating how words are used in context. The functions are similar to the collocations function in CQPweb, but more intuitive. You can use SE to access a wide range of corpora (including the BNC and parallel corpora such as OPUS). If you require access, please contact Fabian Vetter or Julia Schlüter. |
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Corpora @ Uni Lancaster (CQPweb) | Freely accessible corpora at the University of Lancaster, including the BNC, BNC2014 and the Brown familiy. |
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English-corpora.org | A campus licence for the COCA, COHA, BNC, GloWbE, NOW, Movies, TV and other corpora is available now. All students with a free user account for the corpora have advanced access rights when logging in on campus. This also works with a VPN connection from home. Please note this works for only 30 students at a time, so please do not forget to log out once you're finished with your research. |
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Online questionnaires: LimeSurvey | LimeSurvey: Free online survey tool. The program is hosted by and the data is stored at the data center of the University of Bamberg. |
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Software & tutorials for working with corpora and audio/video data | Introduction to Corpus Basics (KorPLUS) | This is an open-resource self-learning package (produced at Bamberg University as part of the DiKuLe project) that is free to use for anyone interested in the application of corpora (large computer-readable text databases) to practical language problems in English. |
BNCweb Manual | ||
Wordsmith 5 Step-by-Step | ||
Getting Started with ICECUP 3.1 (Gerald Nelson, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts) | ||
AntConc Youtube channel | ||
CQPweb Youtube Tutorials | ||
CQP Query Language (advanced queries) (Stefan Evert) | ||
Querying Corpora: Simple Queries with wildcards | ||
Advanced Corpus Queries with Regular Expressions | ||
AntConc: Export KWIC view to MS Excel with keyword in separate column | ||
EXMARaLDA Corpus tool suite | "EXMARaLDA is a system for working with oral corpora on a computer. It consists of a transcription and annotation tool (Partitur-Editor), a tool for managing corpora (Corpus-Manager) and a query and analysis tool (EXAKT)." (https://exmaralda.org/en/about-exmaralda/, 08.08.2023) |
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How to install Transcriber 1.5.1 with bugfix | ||
Official documentation for Transcriber 1.5.1 | ||
ICE Corpora Transcription & Markup Guidelines | ||
Erste Schritte mit Transcriber | ||
ELAN | ELAN is a tool for annotating audio and video data. |
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IPA Tools and Fonts | ||
Types of corpora | Synchronic multi-purpose Corpora | The corpora in this group
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Historical Corpora | Old, Middle and Early Modern English corpora. |
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Other Corpora: Spoken | Specialised spoken corpora. |
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Other Corpora: Written | Specialised written corpora. Highlights: ICLE (International Corpus of Learner English), Oxford Text Archive (OTA), TIME Magazine Corpus of American English. |
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Encyclopedias, Databases, and other useful links | Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (Second Edition) | |
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics | ||
The Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English (eWAVE) | "eWAVE is an interactive database on
morphosyntactic variation in spontaneous spoken English mapping 235 features from a dozen
domains of grammar in now 51 varieties of English
(traditional dialects, high-contact mother-tongue Englishes, and indigenized second-language Englishes)
and 26 English-based
Pidgins and Creoles in eight Anglophone world regions (Africa, Asia, Australia, British Isles, Caribbean, North
America, Pacific,
and the South Atlantic; see
here for a list)." (https://ewave-atlas.org/, 09.08.2023) |
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World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) | "The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of 55 authors." (https://wals.info/, 09.08.2023) |
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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) | The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution
of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed
guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million
words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5
million quotations from a wide range of international English language
sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film
scripts and cookery book. |
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Word for Linguistics (E-Ching Ng, Yale University) | Tips & tricks for using MS Word in linguistics. This author explains how you can draw and integrate phonetic symbols, syntax trees or glosses in your thesis. |
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Linguist List | A mailing list for linguists. |
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Quick selection tool for IPA characters | ||
Data Visualization | Templates for data visualization in MS Office by Lukas Sönning | Lukas Sönning created several templates for MS Office with which you can easily create professional visualizations for your data. The templates can be found in his OSF repository: https://osf.io/v37pw/. |
Graphical methods for data analysis with R (lattice) by Lukas Sönning | ||
Statistics | Basic statistical methods for language research by Lukas Sönning | |
Introduction to statistics for corpus linguistics (Vaclav Brezina @ Uni Lancaster) | Vaclav Brezina created an interactive self-learning course on statistics for corpus linguistics. No background knowledge on statistics required. |
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Simple Methods for Linguistic Research (Lukas Sönning, 5.11.15) | ||
Entscheidungsbaum für statistische Verfahren (Universitäre Fernstudien Schweiz) | ||
Methodenberatung (Uni Zürich) | ||
Cookbook for R |