Corpora of Vietnamese Texts (CVT)IntroductionThe Corpora
of Vietnamese Texts was completed by Giang Pham (formerly Giang
Tang) under the supervision of Kathryn Kohnert, Ph.D. CCC-SLP.
Funding was provided by the Graduate Research Partnership
Program in the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at
the University of Minnestoa. Please
cite this work using the following reference:
Pham, G.,
Kohnert, K., & Carney, E. (2008). Corpora of Vietnamese Texts:
Lexical Effects of Intended Audience and Publication Place.
Behavior Research Methods, 40, 154-163. AcknowledgementsI would like
to send my deepest gratitude and admiration to Dr. Kathryn
Kohnert for her guidance and support throughout this research
project. I am very thankful for my friend and colleague, Nguyễn
Hải Anh, who spent countless hours purchasing children’s books
while in Viet Nam, borrowing books from her school library, and
typing and profreading over 350 texts. I am grateful for my
parents, Tăng Tiến Đức and Tăng Trần Xuân, for all their support
in all my work, and in particular, for their assistance in
creating this website as well as typing and profreading over 50
texts. I really appreciate Nguyễn Hoàng Nam for his
technial support on the Research section of this website as well
as for designing and creating the entire section on Clinical
Materials. I would like to thank Hillcrest Elementary School in
Orlando, FL, for allowing me to borrow more than 200 Vietnamese
children’s books from their library to complete this project. Thank you to
all those who volunteered to type texts, especially Phạm Đức
Tiến and Nguyễn Hoa. Many thanks to Pui Fong Kan, Mahmoud Sadrai,
and Bryan Gordon for technical advise related to corpus
linguistics. Thanks to Nguyễn Hoàng Nam and Trần Lọc for helpful
suggestions about Vietnamese newspaper selection. SummaryThe following table summarizes the composition of the Corpora of Vietnamese Texts. Composition of CVT
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