Chapter published in:
In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language: A corpus-driven approachEdited by Shlomo Izre'el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 94] 2020
► pp. 309–326
Chapter 1Segmentation and analysis of the two English excerpts
The Brazilian team proposal
Tommaso Raso | Federal University of Minas Gerais, CNPq, FAPEMIG
Plínio A. Barbosa | State University of Campinas, Institute for Language Studies, CNPq
Frederico A. Cavalcante | Federal University of Minas Gerais, CAPES
Maryualê M. Mittmann | Unifacvest
This paper has a tripartite focus: (1) to establish the best
segmentation for two American English texts according to inter-rater agreement measurements.
By doing this, we differentiate the behavior of experts and non-experts annotators. The
experts’ annotation constitute the basis for the analysis; (2) to capture, measure, and
analyze the phonetic features that correlate with boundaries, as they are marked by the
expert annotators; (3) to informationally annotate prosodic units according to the Language
into Act Theory, and analyze their corresponding information structure: in order to do this,
we make and justify decisions in marking the reference units and assigning informational
value to prosodic units; additionally we further discuss some cases of major
disagreements.
Keywords: speech segmentation, boundaries, phonetic features, inter-rater agreement, information structure annotation
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Inter-rater agreement in the segmentation
- 3.Phonetic measurements
- 4.Reference unit and IUs: A functional analysis
- 4.1The reference unit
- 4.2Intonation units and information pattern
- 5.Final remarks
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Acknowledgements -
Notes -
References
Published online: 18 June 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.94.10ras
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.94.10ras
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