The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT) is a data set of samples of
spoken English that was compiled in 1993 from
tape recorded and transcribed conversations by teens between the ages of 13 and 17 in schools throughout London, England.[1][2] This
corpus, which has been tagged for
part of speech using the
CLAWS 6 tagset, is one of the
linguistic research projects housed at the
University of Bergen in Norway.[3]
Resultant research
Linguistic analysis based on COLT has appeared in the book Trends in Teenage Talk[4] and subsequent journal articles,[5][6] including, for example, work tracking innit,[7]cos,[8] degree modifiers,[9] extenders,[10] the use of taboo words,[11] and negation.[12]
^Palacios Martinez, Ignacio (2010). "The Expression of Negation in British Teenagers' Language: A Preliminary Study". Journal of English Linguistics.
^Martínez, Ignacio M. Palacios. 2015. Variation, development and pragmatic uses of innit in the language of British adults and teenagers. English Language & Linguistics,
^Stenström, Anna-Brita. 1998. From sentence to discourse: Cos (because) in teenage talk. Pragmatics and Beyond New Series
^Paradis, Carita. 2000. It's well weird: Degree modifiers of adjectives revisited: The nineties. Language and Computers.
^Martínez, Ignacio M. Palacios. 2011. “I might, I might go I mean it depends on money things and stuff”. A preliminary analysis of general extenders in British teenagers' discourse. Journal of Pragmatics.
^Stenström, Anna-Brita. 2006. Taboo words in teenage talk: London and Madrid girls' conversations compared. Spanish in Context. 3(1), Jan 2006, p. 115-138.
^Ignacio M. Palacios Martinez (April 19, 2010). "The Expression of Negation in British Teenagers' Language: A Preliminary Study". Journal of English Linguistics. 39: 4–35.
doi:
10.1177/0075424210366905.