Study of large collections of electronic text for linguistic analysis. After introducing corpus design, creation and analytical methods, corpus techniques are applied to a variety of linguistic issues including variation and change, literacy stylistics and the acquisition and teaching of English. Credits:4 Prerequisite:LING 310 or SPAN 379 and LING 315 or SPAN 301, SPAN 302, SPAN 303 or SPAN 317, SPAN 318, SPAN 319 or consent of instructor