Table of contents
Acknowledgementsvii
Introduction: Spoken corpora and linguistic studies: Problems and perspectives
Section I: Experiences and requirements of spoken corpora compilation
Methodological issues for spontaneous speech corpora compilation: The case of C-ORAL-BRASIL
A multilingual speech corpus of North-Germanic languages
Methodological considerations for the development and use of sign language acquisition corpora
Section II: Multilevel corpus annotation
The grammatical annotation of speech corpora: Techniques and perspectives
The IPIC resource and a cross-linguistic analysis of information structure in Italian and Brazilian Portuguese
The variation of action verbs in multilingual spontaneous speech corpora: Semantic typology and corpus design
Section III: Prosody and its functional levels
Speech and corpora: How spontaneous speech analysis changed our point of view on some linguistic facts: The case of sentence intonation in French
Corpus design for studying the expression of emotion in speech
Illocution, attitudes and prosody: A multimodal analysis
Exploring the prosody of stance: Variation in the realization of stance adverbials
Section IV: Syntax and Information Structure
Prosody and information structure: Segmentation, integration, and in between
The notion of sentence and other discourse units in corpus annotation
Syntactic properties of spontaneous speech in the Language into Act Theory: Data on Italian complements and relative clauses
Prosodic constraints for discourse markers
Appendix: Notes on the Language into Act Theory
Index
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