A Corpus of Formal British English Speech

The Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus

Gerry Knowles, Lita Taylor, Briony Williams (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

278 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-45776-8 (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.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.10.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-45776-0 / 1138457760
ISBN-13	978-1-138-45776-8 / 9781138457768
Zustand	Neuware