Harvard Dataverse· 2015
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
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The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is the largest structured corpus of American English, containing over 450 million words from 1990-2012, equally divided among spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic texts.
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Key points
- Contains over 450 million words.
- Covers the period from 1990-2012.
- Includes 20 million words per year.
- Equally divided among spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic texts.
- Composed of 189,431 individual texts.
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Abstract
Largest structured corpus of American English composed of more than 450 million words in 189,431 texts, including 20 million words each year from 1990-2012. The corpus is equally divided among spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic texts
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Field: Linguistics and Language
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