In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language: A corpus-driven approach
Edited by Shlomo Izre'el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 94] 2020. xi, 440 pp.
Shlomo Izre'el
List of John Benjamins publications for which Shlomo Izre'el plays a role.
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Subjects Corpus linguistics | Phonetics | Phonology | Theoretical linguistics
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2020. Chapter 3. Applying criteria of spontaneous Hebrew speech segmentation to English. In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language: A corpus-driven approach, Izre'el, Shlomo, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso (eds.), pp. 337–348
Taking prosody to be the leading component in speech segmentation, this chapter attempts to transfer segmentation methodologies from Hebrew to English spontaneous speech. Following a process of segmentation by perception of two English chunks a detailed acoustic analysis has been conducted, using… read more | Chapter
2020. Chapter 2. The basic unit of spoken language and the interfaces between prosody, discourse and syntax: A View from spontaneous spoken Hebrew. In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language: A corpus-driven approach, Izre'el, Shlomo, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso (eds.), pp. 77–106
Looking at spoken language as an integrative whole, where prosody, syntax and discourse features interplay as to conveying information, I will try to figure out the best methodology for its research by advocating that the best candidate to be regarded as the basic unit of spoken discourse is the… read more | Chapter
2020. Introduction. In search of a basic unit of spoken language: Segmenting speech. In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language: A corpus-driven approach, Izre'el, Shlomo, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso (eds.), pp. 1–32
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2020. Same texts, different approaches to segmentation: An introduction to the second part of the volume. In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language: A corpus-driven approach, Izre'el, Shlomo, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso (eds.), pp. 303–308
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2018. Unipartite clauses: A view from spoken Israeli Hebrew. Afroasiatic: Data and perspectives, Tosco, Mauro (ed.), pp. 235–259
Within an integrative approach to the structure of spoken language, taking into account prosody, information structure, and syntax, a new model of clause is suggested, viz., a unipartite clause, where the only necessary and sufficient component is the predicate, i.e., with no subject component… read more | Chapter
2015. Representation of speech in CorpAfroAs: Transcriptional strategies and prosodic units. Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages, Mettouchi, Amina, Martine Vanhove and Dominique Caubet (eds.), pp. 13–41
This paper surveys the transcriptional aspects of CorpAfroAs, a spoken corpus of Afroasiatic languages, with a focus on the representation of phonemes, morphemes, words, and longer units. We discuss the distinction between prosodic, phonological and morphosyntactic word, as well as that between… read more | Article
2001. Designing CoSIH: The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 6:2, pp. 171–197
This paper describes the initial design of the Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew (CoSIH). CoSIH will attempt to include a representation of most varieties of spoken Hebrew as it is used in Israel today. CoSIH is designed to consist of two complementary corpora: a main corpus and a supplementary… read more | Article
1994. Did Adapa Indeed Lose His Chance for Eternal Life? A Rationale for Translating Ancient Texts into a Modern Language1. Target 6:1, pp. 15–41
This paper takes as a model for discussing the issue of translating ancient texts into a modern language and for a modern western society an ancient Mesopotamian myth written in the Semitic Akkadian language. Aiming for an oral production for a Hebrew-speaking audience in contemporary Israel, the… read more | Article
1987. The complementary distribution of the vowels e and i in the peripheral akkadian dialect
of Amuuru — a further step towards our understanding of the development of the amarna Jargon. Proceedings of the Fourth International Hamito-Semitic Congress, Jungraithmayr, Herrmann and Walter W. Mueller (eds.), pp. 525–541
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