A Corpus of Formal British English Speech

The Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus

Gerry Knowles, L. Taylor, Briony Williams (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

1996
Longman (Verlag)
978-0-582-05639-8 (ISBN)

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This work provides 50,000 words of prosodically-transcribed text from a variety of sources. The introduction explains fully the transcription conventions, the structure of the corpus and its relationship to other computer corpora, and provides examples of different versions of texts.

Gerald Knowles is a senior lectuerer at Lancaster University. Lita Taylor is a Research Assistant at Lancaster University. Briony Williams is a Senior Researcher at the University of Bangor.

Introduction
Prosodic characters
The composition of the corpus.
Breakdown into categories. Speakers.
Dates of composition and recording.
The duration of text extracts.
SEC text details.
Versions of SEC material.
Spoken recording.
Unpunctuated transcriptions.
Orthographic transcriptions.
Samples of different versions.
Unpunctuated transcription.
Orthographic transcription.
Grammatically tagged versions.
Texts.

Appendix 1: The CLAWS1 tagset.
Appendix 2: Complete version of Through the Tunnel.

References and bibliography.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.8.1996
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	223 x 144 mm
Gewicht	786 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-582-05639-X / 058205639X
ISBN-13	978-0-582-05639-8 / 9780582056398
Zustand	Neuware