COLT: The Bergen Corpus Of London Teenage Language

A Language Research Project at the University of Bergen
Funded by the Faculty of Arts and the Norwegian Research Council
In co-operation with The HIT Centre, University of Bergen (from 2001: The Department of Culture, Language and Information Technology (Aksis); now Uni Research Computing

Welcome to the COLT homepage!

The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT) is the first large English Corpus focusing on the speech of teenagers. It was collected in 1993 and consists of the spoken language of 13 to 17-year-old teenagers from different boroughs of London. The complete corpus, half a million words, has been orthographically transcribed and word-class tagged, and is a constituent of the British National Corpus.

COLT is now available through the CLARIN infrastructure

In the Nordic countries, research into teenage language is carried out by
UNO (Språkkontakt och ungdomsspråk i Norden), a project which aims at the investigation and comparison of spoken and informal written language of Nordic teenagers.

[COLT book]

Trends in Teenage Talk
Corpus compilation, analysis and findings
Anna-Brita Stenström, Gisle Andersen and Ingrid Kristine Hasund

Studies in Corpus Linguistics 8, John Benjamins

2002. xii, 229 pp.

[COLT drawing]

More information about COLT
COLT research (Abstracts)
Facts and figures
The COLT Bibliography
Browse and search the corpus
(Holders of CD-ROM only)
Demo of text liked to sound
Word frequency list (1000 most frequent words)

For more information, please contact:

Anna-Brita Stenström

The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT)
Aksis, Allegaten 27, N-5007 Bergen, Norway

Staff:
Hofland, Knut, Aksis tel: 55 58 94 63
Stenström, Anna-Brita

Last revised 20. November 2003.