Robbie Love is a Research Fellow at the School of Education, University of Leeds, with research interests in applied and corpus linguistics. He completed his PhD at Lancaster University in 2018, where he was lead researcher in the development of the Spoken British National Corpus 2014. Before moving to Leeds, he held a post-doctoral position at Cambridge Assessment English, where he worked on the development of the Cambridge Learner Corpus. He is co-editor of "Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech" (Routledge, 2018).

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• Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionPart I BEFORE CORPUS CONSTRUCTION: THEORY AND DESIGNChapter 2: Why a new Spoken BNC and why now?Chapter 3: Theoretical challenges in corpus designPart II DURING CORPUS CONSTRUCTION: THEORY MEETS PRACTICEChapter 4: Challenges in data collectionChapter 5: Challenges in transcription, part I – conventionsChapter 6: Challenges in transcription, part II – who said what?Chapter 7: Challenges in corpus processing and disseminationPart III AFTER CORPUS CONSTRUCTION: EVALUATING THE CORPUSChapter 8: Evaluating the Spoken BNC2014Chapter 9: Conclusions and further construction work

Robbie Love is a Research Fellow at the School of Education, University of Leeds, with research interests in applied and corpus linguistics. He completed his PhD at Lancaster University in 2018, where he was lead researcher in the development of the Spoken British National Corpus 2014. Before moving to Leeds, he held a post-doctoral position at Cambridge Assessment English, where he worked on the development of the Cambridge Learner Corpus. He is co-editor of "Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech" (Routledge, 2018).

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• Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionPart I BEFORE CORPUS CONSTRUCTION: THEORY AND DESIGNChapter 2: Why a new Spoken BNC and why now?Chapter 3: Theoretical challenges in corpus designPart II DURING CORPUS CONSTRUCTION: THEORY MEETS PRACTICEChapter 4: Challenges in data collectionChapter 5: Challenges in transcription, part I – conventionsChapter 6: Challenges in transcription, part II – who said what?Chapter 7: Challenges in corpus processing and disseminationPart III AFTER CORPUS CONSTRUCTION: EVALUATING THE CORPUSChapter 8: Evaluating the Spoken BNC2014Chapter 9: Conclusions and further construction work