Steven Coats
PhD
Lecturer, English, Faculty of Humanities

I'm a lecturer in the English unit in the Faculty of Humanities. My research explores language diversity, variation, and change using corpus-based methods, with focuses on data collection and analysis scripts and tools, regional variation in English, and language use in computer-mediated communication. I have created two large corpora of automatic speech-to-text transcripts: the Corpus of North American Spoken English and the Corpus of British Isles Spoken English.
Research interests
- Corpus linguistics
- Computer-mediated communication
- Dialectology
- Sociolinguistics
- Data visualization
- Python
- R
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Contact information
Steven.Coats@oulu.fi