(Created July 2023)
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00:39 Introduction: A history of the BNC and COCA
02:20 Introduction: Dialectal differences
04:21 Introduction: BNC 2014 Written ("What is a corpus?")
08:27 Genres: overview
12:07 Genres: web/blogs
13:14 Genres: spoken
15:48 Genres: academic
19:16 Size: overview
19:59 Size: syntax
21:56 Size: lexical (word meaning and usage)
25:43 Size: number of texts (granularity for Virtual Corpora)
28:40 Historical: "missing" data
33:36 Historical: changes in meaning and usage
35:34 Historical: BNC much older data than COCA
37:21 Conclusion (and notes on proposed LANA corpus)