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International Journal of Learner Corpus Research
Vol. 7:2 (2021) ► pp.275–289
Corpus report

The interphonology of contemporary English corpus (IPCE-IPAC)

| Paris Nanterre University
| Northwestern Polytechnical University
| Paris 8 University
| Western Ontario University

This article presents the IPCE-IPAC corpus, an ongoing project, which has been collected in France, Italy, Spain and China since 2014. The data is collected to investigate the acquisition of segmental and suprasegmental phenomena by L2 learners of English, with a focus on phonemes. The article discusses the methods for the compilation of this original spoken learner corpus, designed to study L2 “interphonology” (Detey, Racine, Kawaguchi, & Zay, 2016), or interlanguage phonology.

Keywords: interphonology, phonetic learner corpora, EFL, transcription, coding
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.IPCE-IPAC project: Goals and originality
  • 3.The IPCE-IPAC methodological framework
    • 3.1Word list reading task
    • 3.2Repetition task
    • 3.3Reading of a written text
    • 3.4Participation in two types of conversation
      • 3.4.1Formal interview
      • 3.4.2Informal conversation
    • 3.5Speakers
  • 4.Corpus annotation
    • 4.1Orthographic transcription
    • 4.2Coding
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 11 October 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.20010.her
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