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Morphological complexity: How is grammar acquired and how do we measure this?
Vaclav Brezina and Gabriele Pallotti Inflectional morphology has to do with how words change their form to express grammatical meaning. It plays an important role in a number of languages. In these languages, the patterns of word change may for example indicate number and case on nouns, or past, present and future tense on verbs.…
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Introducing a new project with the British Library
Since 2012 the BBC have been working with the British Library to build a collection of intimate conversations from across the UK in the BBC Listening Project. Through its network of local radio stations, and with the help of a travelling recording booth the BBC has captured many conversations of people, who are well known…
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Analysing Corporate Communications
Detecting the structure of annual financial reports and extracting their contents for further corpus analysis has never been easier. The UCREL Corporate Financial Information Environment (CFIE) project and CASS’ Corporate Communications sub-project has now released the CFIE-FRSE Final Report Structure Extractor: A desktop application to detect the structure of UK Annual Reports and extract the…
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Recent Research into CEO Compensation
On Wednesday 18th January, the CFA Society United Kingdom (CFA UK) hosted a breakfast meeting at Innholders’ Court (London, EC4R 2RH) to discuss findings of a recently completed CFA UK-funded research project examining CEO compensation across the FTSE-350 from 2003 to 2015. CFA UK represents the interests of around 12,000 investment professionals in the UK and the…
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Introducing the CASS Guided Reading Project (Part 2)
In the first blog entry, we noted that there is a substantial variability in our understanding of how guided reading is thought to foster specific literacy skills. Further, we explained how our use of corpus methods will enable us to identify a wide range of teacher strategies used in guided reading. That is a crucial…
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Introducing the CASS Guided Reading Project (Part 1)
In collaboration with the Department of Psychology, CASS is investigating the critical features of guided reading that can benefit the language and literacy skills of typically developing children. What is guided reading? Guided reading is a technique used by teachers to support literacy development. The teacher works with a small group of children, typically not…
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Controlling the scale and pace of immigration: changes in UK press coverage about migration
The issue of immigration prominently featured in debates leading up to the June 2016 EU Referendum vote. It was argued that too many people were entering the UK, largely from other EU member states. Politicians and media also talked about ‘taking back control’—notably in the contexts of deciding who can enter Britain and enforcing borders.…
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New CASS PhD student!
CASS is delighted to welcome new PhD student Andressa Gomide to the centre, where she will be working on data visualization in corpus linguistics. Continue reading to find out more about Andressa! I am in the first year of a my PhD in Linguistics, which is focused on data visualizations for corpus tools. Being a…
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CASS goes to the Wellcome Trust!
Earlier this month I represented CASS in a workshop, hosted by the Wellcome Trust, which was designed to explore the language surrounding patient data. The remit of this workshop was to report back to the Trust on what might be the best ways to communicate to patients about their data, their rights respecting their data,…
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Corpus Linguistics, and why you might want to use it, despite what (you think) you know about it
As part of the Spatial Humanities project at Lancaster University, and in collaboration with the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences, the central aim of my PhD research project is to investigate the potential of corpus linguistics to allow for the exploration of spatial patterns in large amounts of digitised historical texts. Since I…
CASS Briefings
CASS: Briefings is a series of short, quick reads on the work being done at the ESRC/CASS research centre at Lancaster University, UK.