Become familiar with the following corpora, including the following characteristics:

• date (created / content)
• geographical content
• size
• type of content (some spoken, all written, etc)
• anything particular unique / special / useful

• Brown / FROWN
• LOB / FLOB
• Australian Corpus of English (ACE) / Wellington corpus / Kolhapur corpus
• London-Lund
• British National Corpus (BNC)
• American National Corpus (ANC)
• Bank of English / Cobuild
• International Corpus of English (ICE)
• Switchboard
• Helsinki
• CHILDES
• MICASE
• ICLE - International Corpus of Learners' English