C-ORAL-ROM
Integrated Reference Corpora for Spoken Romance Languages
Editors
The C-ORAL-ROM book and DVD provide a unique set of comparable corpora of spontaneous speech for the main Romance languages, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The corpora are accompanied by comparative linguistic studies, models and standard linguistic measures of spoken language variability. Each corpus is built to the same design using identical sampling techniques, and each corpus is presented in multimedia format, allowing simultaneous access to aligned acoustic and textual information. Texts are headed with information about provenance, participants, etc. and the transcriptions show changes of speaker. Speech acts are tagged according to the evidence of prosodic criteria. Each corpus totals 300,000 words and presents formal and informal speech in a variety of contexts of use, dialogue structure and text genres, semantic domains and speech act typologies. The corpora have great statistical relevance for spoken language structures and can address key issues in human language technology such as speech recognition in unrestricted discourse, the suitability of speech synthesis in natural prosody, and multilingual applications of the spoken language interface. The work provides new data and innovative theoretical perspectives that are relevant for corpus linguistics, romance linguistics, syntactic theory, speech and prosody research, and second language acquisition.
The original C-ORAL-ROM DVD was made to run under Windows XP when Windows 7 and 8 were not yet in existence. A new version of WINPITCH-C-ORAL-ROM makes it possible to run the C-ORAL-ROM DVD under Windows 7 and 8. It can be downloaded from www.winpitch.com/
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 15] 2005. xviii, 304 pp. (incl. DVD)
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | pp. xi–xiii
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PrefaceClaire Blanche-Benveniste | pp. xv–xvii
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1. The C-ORAL-ROM resourceMassimo Moneglia and Philippe Martin | pp. 1–70
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2. The Italian corpusEmanuela Cresti, Alessandro Panunzi and Antonietta Scarano | pp. 71–110
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3. The French corpusEstelle Campione, Jean Véronis and José Deulofeu | pp. 111–133
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4. The Spanish corpusAntonio Moreno-Sandoval, Gillermo de la Madrid, Manuel Alcántara, Ana Gonzalez, José M. Guirao and Raúl De la Torre | pp. 135–161
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5. The Portuguese corpusMaria Fernanda Bacelar do Nascimento, José Bettencourt Gonçalves, Rita Veloso, Sandra Antunes, Florbela Barreto and Raquel Amaro | pp. 163–207
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6. Notes on lexical strategy, structural strategies and surface clause indexes in the C-ORAL-ROM spoken corporaEmanuela Cresti | pp. 209–256
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7. AppendixMassimo Moneglia, Marco Fabbri, Silvia Quazza, Andrea Panizza, Morena Danieli, Juan Maríia Garrido and Marc Swerts | pp. 257–276
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“This is a great resource for researchers in the areas of Romance linguistics, corpus linguistics, syntax, second language acquisition, and speech and prosody research. The operation of the DVD and the tools included in is quite straightforward.”
Cornelia González, Florida State University, on eLanguage 2008-10-30 15:47:32
“Sarà chiaro anche da questa segnalazione per forza di cose breve che C-ORAL-ROM è un lavoro molto notevole, di eccellente qualità, all’avanguardia anche per rigore metodologico, che arricchisce la linguistica romanza in un settore da prevedere sempre più in sviluppo qual è la corpus linguistics e mette a disposizione della communità scientifica un importante strumento di ricerca.”
Gaetano Berruto,
Torino, in Romanische Forchungen 119(3), 2007
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