John Newman announces the release of the Canadian component of the International Corpus of English (ICE Canada - ice-corpora.net/ice/. The corpus (500 files x 2,000 words, mainly transcribed spoken data), along with fairly extensive metadata (age, gender etc. of speakers) is available free to bona fide researchers, through downloading of the password-protected corpus from http://ice-corpora.net/ice/download.htm.
