Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies
Editors
| Federal University of Minas Gerais
| Federal University of Minas Gerais
The authors of this book share a common interest in the following topics: the importance of corpora compilation for the empirical study of human language; the importance of pragmatic categories such as emotion, attitude, illocution and information structure in linguistic theory; and a passionate belief in the central role of prosody for the analysis of speech. Four distinct sections (spoken corpora compilation; spoken corpora annotation; prosody; and syntax and information structure) give the book the structure in which the authors present innovative methodologies that focus on the compilation of third generation spoken corpora; multilevel spoken corpora annotation and its functions; and additionally a debate is initiated about the reference unit in the study of spoken language via information structure. The book is accompanied by a web site with a rich array of audio/video files. The web site can be found at the following address: DOI: 10.1075/scl.61.media
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 61] 2014. vii, 498 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
|
vii
|
1–24
|
|
Section I: Experiences and requirements of spoken corpora compilation
|
|
27–68
|
|
69–83
|
|
84–102
|
|
Section II: Multilevel corpus annotation
|
|
105–128
|
|
129–151
|
|
152–188
|
|
Section III: Prosody and its functional levels
|
|
191–209
|
|
210–232
|
|
233–270
|
|
271–294
|
|
Section IV: Syntax and Information Structure
|
|
297–330
|
|
331–364
|
|
365–410
|
|
411–467
|
|
468–495
|
|
Index
|
496–498
|
“This is a very rich collection of papers by very eminent scholars, which makes a comprehensive, unified statement about spoken corpus study and its essential contribution to our perception of language per se. This cutting-edge research of spoken language does not lean on commonly accepted notions and theories, but sets off to show what can be learned from spoken corpora in establishing new strategies by novel thinking. The volume includes chapters in several sections, starting with corpus compilation and corpus structure, going through corpus annotation and empirical work, dealing with the exploitation of corpora for core linguistic domains, and finally getting to other linguistic, sociolinguistic and paralinguistic domains. This volume should – and hopefully will – serve as an impetus to an enhanced phase in the study of spoken languages and language in general.”
Shlomo Izre’el, Tel-Aviv University
Media files
Methodological issues for spontaneous speech corpora compilation
audio
The IPIC resource and a cross-linguistic analysis of information structure in Italian and Brazilian Portuguese
audio
Speech and corpora
audio
Illocution, attitudes and prosody
video
Prosody and information structure
audio
The notion of sentence and other discourse units in corpus annotation
audio
Syntactic properties of spontaneous speech in the Language into Act Theory
audio
Prosodic constraints for discourse markers
audio
Appendix
audio
Cited by
Cited by 5 other publications
No author info given
Adolphs, Svenja, Dawn Knight, Catherine Smith & Dominic Price
Izre'el, Shlomo
Lacheret-Dujour, Anne, Sylvain Kahane, F. Neveu, B. Harmegnies, L. Hriba, S. Prévost & A. Steuckardt
Simard, Candide
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 28 december 2020. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.
Erratum
Erratum
Due to a mishap in production a non-final version of the article by Johannessen et al. was published in the print edition of the book. Please find a corrected, complimentary full text version here.
Subjects
BIC Subject: CFX – Computational linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General