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MUM's the word

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Robert Allen
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Abstract

Following on from Michael Rundell's article on the spoken component of the British National Corpus (ET43, Apr 95), an account of MUM, the BNC Collection of Miscellaneous Unpublished Material

Type
Research Article
Information
English Today , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , October 1995 , pp. 9 - 14
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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Notes and references

1 I am grateful to Packard, Ann and Robinson, Main (see further, passim) for help in the writing of this article, and to Ilona Morison for computing help.Google Scholar
2 For a summary of the state of the art in corpus development, see Geoffrey Leech in Aijmer, K. and Altenberg, B., English Corpus Linguistics (1991), 8–29.Google Scholar
3Sinclair, J. M. et al. , Looking Up (1987), 16, 32.Google Scholar
4 I should like to acknowledge the invaluable help we received on this and other matters from Dr Henry Thompson of the University of Edinburgh's Human Communication Research Centre. Dr Thompson is also a member of the Advisory Council of the British National Corpus.Google Scholar