A Corpus of Formal British English Speech: The Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus
Author:   Gerry Knowles ,  Lita Taylor ,  Briony Williams
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138457768


Pages:   280
Publication Date:   28 July 2017
Format:   Hardback
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A Corpus of Formal British English Speech: The Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus


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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.

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Author:   Gerry Knowles ,  Lita Taylor ,  Briony Williams
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138457768


ISBN 10:   1138457760
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   28 July 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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.

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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.

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