The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT) is a data set of samples of spoken English that was compiled in 1993 from tape recorded and transcribed conversations by teens between the ages of 13 and 17 in schools throughout London, England. This corpus, which has been tagged for part of speech using the CLAWS 6 tagset, is one of the linguistic research projects housed at the University of Bergen in Norway.
Resultant research Linguistic analysis based on COLT has appeared in the book Trends in Teenage Talk and subsequent journal articles, including, for example, work tracking innit,Martínez, Ignacio M. Palacios. 2015. Variation, development and pragmatic uses of innit in the language of British adults and teenagers. English Language & Linguistics, cos,Stenström, Anna-Brita. 1998. From sentence to discourse: Cos (because) in teenage talk. Pragmatics and Beyond New Series degree modifiers,Paradis, Carita. 2000. It's well weird: Degree modifiers of adjectives revisited: The nineties. Language and Computers. extenders,Martínez, Ignacio M. Palacios. 2011. “I might, I might go I mean it depends on money things and stuff”. A preliminary analysis of general extenders in British teenagers' discourse. Journal of Pragmatics. the use of taboo words,Stenström, Anna-Brita. 2006. Taboo words in teenage talk: London and Madrid girls' conversations compared. Spanish in Context. 3(1), Jan 2006, p. 115-138. and negation.
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