Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies
Editors
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
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Acknowledgements | p. vii
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Introduction: Spoken corpora and linguistic studies: Problems and perspectivesTommaso Raso and Heliana Ribeiro De Mello | pp. 1–24
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Section I: Experiences and requirements of spoken corpora compilation
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Methodological issues for spontaneous speech corpora compilation: The case of C-ORAL-BRASILHeliana Ribeiro De Mello | pp. 27–68
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A multilingual speech corpus of North-Germanic languagesJanne Bondi Johannessen, Øystein Alexander Vangsnes, Joel Priestley and Kristin Hagen | pp. 69–83
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Methodological considerations for the development and use of sign language acquisition corporaRonice Müller de Quadros, Diane Lillo-Martin and Deborah Chen Pichler | pp. 84–102
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Section II: Multilevel corpus annotation
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The grammatical annotation of speech corpora: Techniques and perspectivesEckhard Bick | pp. 105–128
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The IPIC resource and a cross-linguistic analysis of information structure in Italian and Brazilian PortugueseAlessandro Panunzi and Maryualê M. Mittmann | pp. 129–151
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The variation of action verbs in multilingual spontaneous speech corpora: Semantic typology and corpus designMassimo Moneglia | pp. 152–188
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Section III: Prosody and its functional levels
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Speech and corpora: How spontaneous speech analysis changed our point of view on some linguistic facts: The case of sentence intonation in FrenchPhilippe Martin | pp. 191–209
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Corpus design for studying the expression of emotion in speechKlaus R. Scherer | pp. 210–232
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Illocution, attitudes and prosody: A multimodal analysisJoão Antônio de Moraes and Albert Rilliard | pp. 233–270
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Exploring the prosody of stance: Variation in the realization of stance adverbialsDouglas Biber and Shelley Staples | pp. 271–294
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Section IV: Syntax and Information Structure
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Prosody and information structure: Segmentation, integration, and in betweenMarianne Mithun | pp. 297–330
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The notion of sentence and other discourse units in corpus annotationPaola Pietrandrea, Sylvain Kahane, Anne Lacheret-Dujour and Frédéric Sabio | pp. 331–364
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Syntactic properties of spontaneous speech in the Language into Act Theory: Data on Italian complements and relative clausesEmanuela Cresti | pp. 365–410
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Prosodic constraints for discourse markersTommaso Raso | pp. 411–467
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Appendix: Notes on the Language into Act TheoryMassimo Moneglia and Tommaso Raso | pp. 468–495
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Index | pp. 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
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Cimmino, Doriana
2023. Chapter 12. On the topic-marking function of left dislocations and preposings. In Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective [Studies in Language Companion Series, 227], ► pp. 337 ff.
Adolphs, Svenja, Dawn Knight, Catherine Smith & Dominic Price
Izre'el, Shlomo
2020. Chapter 2. The basic unit of spoken language and the interfaces between prosody, discourse and syntax. In In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 94], ► pp. 77 ff.
Lacheret-Dujour, Anne, Sylvain Kahane, F. Neveu, B. Harmegnies, L. Hriba, S. Prévost & A. Steuckardt
Rilliard, Albert, Christophe d'Alessandro & Marc Evrard
Simard, Candide
2018. Chapter 4. On being first. In Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages [Studies in Language Companion Series, 199], ► pp. 85 ff.
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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
Main BIC Subject
CFX: Computational linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General