Voices across America Presentation September 26

Elizabeth Hanks will visit campus on September 26 from 3 to 4 PM to give a presentation in Greene Hall room 239.

This presentation introduces the design, sampling, and data collection of a new corpus of spoken American English: the Lancaster-Northern Arizona Corpus of Spoken American English (LANA-CASE). The goal of the project is to compile a publicly available, large-scale corpus of both written and spoken American English which can serve as a comparable counterpart to the BNC2014. In her talk, Hanks will discuss design, sampling, data collection, and progress to date. This talk is sponsored by the WFU Linguistics Department.

Elizabeth Hanks is a PhD candidate at Northern Arizona University. Her research focuses on register (namely conversation), vocabulary, and pragmatics and has published in journals such as English for Specific Purposes, Applied Corpus Linguistics, and Corpus Pragmatics. She is leading the data collection and transcription of LANA-CASE with plans to release the corpus in 2026.

More information about the corpus can be found at the website: sites.google.com/view/share-your-voice/home