We are very pleased to announce the release of PATTIE corpus 'Preschoolers- and Teenagers-oriented Texts in English' via BFSU CQPweb:http://124.193.83.252/cqp/
The corpus was developed by Dr. Jie Ji of China Foreign Affairs University.
Composition of PATTIE corpus
Genre
Texts
Publication year and place of publication
No. of tokens
Contemporary
Literature
01. Harry Potter Series
02. How to Train Your Dragon Series
03. Magic Tree House Series
04. Ramona’s World
05. Shiloh
06. The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas
07. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
1997-1998
2003-2007
1992-2009
1999
1991
2006
2006
US and UK
169,893
112,530
92,920
26,701
31,462
48,056
17,145
498,707
(24.75%)
Classics
08. Aesop’s Fables
09. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
10. Charlotte’s Web
11. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
12. Grimm’s Fairy Tales
13. Peter Pan and Wendy
14. The Little Prince
15. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
1484
1865
1952
1835-1845
1812
1911
1943
1900
US, UK and some English translations
35,533
20,292
33,072
134,372
102,282
47,990
17,290
39,561
430,392
(21.36%)
Textbook
16. California Treasure
17. Heinemann Reading
18. Oxford Reading Tree
19. Scott Foresman
2009
2009
2000s
2005
US
UK
UK
US
160,118
28,382
128,084
43,691
360,275
(17.88%)
Popular Science
20. DK First Step
21. Scott Foresman Science
22. The Magic School Bus: Science Readers
2007
2005
1996
US
US
US
1,583
33,894
48,972
84,449
(4.19%)
News
23. Time for Kids: Entertainment news
24. Time for Kids: Health News
25. Time for Kids: Nation News
26. Time for Kids: Science News
27. Time for Kids: Sports News
28. Time for Kids: World News
2013-2014
2013-2014
2013-2014
2013-2014
2013-2014
2013-2014
US
US
US
US
US
US
21,858
15,032
16,557
19,773
12,416
22,373
108,009
(5.36%)
Animation
29. 64 Zoo Lane
30. Avatar: The Last Airbender
31. Caillou
32. Chuggington
33. Max and Ruby
34. Numberjacks
35. Peep and the Big Wide World
36. Peppa Pig
1999-2013
2005-2008
1997-2010
2008-2011
2002
2006-2007
2004-2010
2004-2012
UK
US
Canada
UK
US
UK
US
UK
82,722
120,777
93,113
57,442
5,549
33,521
65,938
74,269
533,331
(26.46%)
Total no. of tokens
2,015,163
