Work on the Student-Transcribed Corpus of Spoken American English is continuing. This year, seven undergraduate students enlarged the corpus with new transcripts during the Undergraduate Scholars Programme 2023. They were: Reet K Maur, Yan Lee, Georgina Willoughby, Yanhao Li, Kriti Mehrota, Faatima Adam and Grace Carrier. They managed to add no less than 24,000 words. I am very grateful for their hard work and wish them all the best for the future!

A video of the students' final showcase presentation is now available. They first talk about the creation of a professional spoken corpus. After that, they present an investigation into colloquial expressions and whether they show a rise and fall pattern known as "the adolescent peak."

You can watch the presentation here or watch it directly below:



The corpus now includes ~176,000 word tokens. Here is to hoping that it will continue to grow steadily.