The Bristol Centre for Linguistics at the University of the West of EnglandUnits and ProjectsBCL is host to a growing number of units and projects: International Corpus Linguistics Research Unit, with four corpora at its heart the Corpus of the Learner Language Project, a quadrilingual corpus dealing with development of L2 learners’ oral proficiency, Parallel (translation) corpora, corpus of spontaneous spoken French, The KEMPE Corpus of Early Modern Plays VOCABUILD - Vocabulary development of bilingual children referred for speech and language therapy Critical Metaphor Theory Project, a corpus-based discourse analysis project centred on the relation between language, gender, and the experience of bodily states Vocabulary and conceptual representations in bilinguals and L2 learners, spanning the areas of lexicology and second-language learning Turkish Language and Immigration Project (TULIP) analysing the bilingual language competence in the first and second language of Turkish adolescents in Europe (especially Germany), by comparison with control groups of returnees to Turkey and monolingual Turkish students in Turkey. The Bristol Regional Language and Languages Project (BReLL), a new and developing project aiming to study the regional accents and dialects of the Bristol area and the range of modern spoken languages that can be heard there. Directorate of the Survey of English Place-Names, coupled with the Somerset Place-Names Project Family Names in the United Kingdom (FaNUK) - Richard Coates (funded by AHRC, beginning April 2010) |
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