Overview

This handbook presents the first systematic account of corpus phonology - the employment of corpora, especially purpose-built phonological corpora of spoken language, for studying speakers' and listeners' acquisition and knowledge of the sound system of their native languages and the principles underlying those systems. The field combines methods and theoretical approaches from phonology, both diachronic and synchronic, phonetics, corpus linguistics, speech technology, information technology and computer science, mathematics and statistics.The book is divided into four parts: the first looks at the design, compilation, and use of phonological corpora, while the second looks at specific applications, including examples from French and Norwegian phonology, child phonological development, and second language acquisition. Part 3 looks at the tools and methods used, such as Praat and EXMARaLDA, and the final part examines a number of currently available phonological corpora in various languages, including LANCHART, LeaP, and IViE. It will appeal not only to those working with phonological corpora, but also to researchers and students of phonology and phonetics more generally, as well as to all those interested in language variation, dialectology, first and second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics.

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Author:   Jacques Durand (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Toulouse-Le Mirail) ,  Ulrike Gut (Chair of English Linguistics, Chair of English Linguistics, Westfälische Wilhelms University Münster) ,  Gjert Kristoffersen (Professor of Scandinavian Languages, Professor of Scandinavian Languages, University of Bergen)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 4.40cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.348kg
ISBN:  

9780199571932

ISBN 10:   0199571937
Pages:   680
Publication Date:   05 June 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Jacques Durand, Ulrike Gut, and Gjert Kristoffersen: Introduction Part I: Phonological Corpora: Design, Compilation, and Exploitation 2: Ulrike Gut and Holger Voorman: Corpus Design 3: Bruce Birch: Data Collection 4: Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie and Brechtje Post: Corpus Annotation: Methodology and Transcription Systems 5: Catia Cucchiarini and Helmer Strik: On Automatic Phonological Transcription of Speech Corpora 6: Hermann Moisl: Statistical Corpus Exploitation 7: Peter Wittenburg, Paul Trilsbeek, and Florian Wittenburg: Corpus Archiving and Dissemination 8: Daan Broeder and Dieter van Uytyanck: Metadata Formats 9: Laurent Romary and Andreas Witt: Data Formats for Phonological Corpora Part II: Applications 10: Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie and Hijon Yoo: Corpus and Research in Phonetics and Phonology: Methodological and Formal Considerations 11: Hanne Gram Simonsen and Gjert Kristoffersen: A Corpus-Based Study of Apicalization of /s/ before /l/ in Oslo Norwegian 12: Jacques Durand: Corpora, Variation, and Phonology: An Illustration from French Liaison 13: Yvan Rose: Corpus-Based Investigations of Child Phonological Development: Formal and Practical Considerations 14: Ulrike Gut: Second Language Acquisition Part III: Tools and Methods 15: Hans Sloetjes: ELAN: Multimedia Annotation Application 16: Tina John and Lasse Bombien: EMU 17: Paul Boersma: The use of Praat in corpus research 18: Caren Brinckmann: Praat Scripting 19: Yvan Rose and Brian McWhinney: The PhonBank Project: Data and Software-Assisted Methods for the Study of Phonology and Phonological Development 20: Thomas Schmidt and Kai Wörner: EXMARaLDA 21: Michael Kipp: ANVIL: The Video Annotation Research Tool 22: Atanas Tchobanov: Web-Based Archiving and Sharing of Phonological Corpora Part IV: Corpora 23: Francis Nolan and Brechtje Post: The IViE Corpus 24: Jacques Durand, Bernard Laks, and Chantal Lyche: French Phonology from a Corpus Perspective: The PFC Programme 25: Kristin Hagen and Hanne Gram Simonsen: Two Norwegian Speech Corpora: No Ta-Oslo and TAUS 26: Ulrike Gut: The LeaP Corpus 27: Joan Beal, Karen Corrigan, Adam Mearns, and Hermann Moisl: The Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: Annotation Practices and Dissemination Strategies 28: Frans Gregersen, Marie Maegaard, and Nicolai Pharao: The LANCHART Corpus 29: Marc van Oostendorp: Phonological and Phonetic Databases at the Meertens Institute 30: Anne Catherine Simon, Philippe Hambye, and Michel Francard: The VALIBEL Speech Database 31: Janet Fletcher and Lesley Stirling: Prosody and discourse in the Australian Map Task Corpus 32: Jane Tsay: A Phonological Corpus of L1 Acquistion of Taiwan Southern Min

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this Handbook fulfils its aims as a high-level reference work in corpus phonology and as a comprehensive practical guide for a better handling of linguistic corpora in their international and scientific diversity. It will be of interest to any well-informed researcher or advanced student already committed to working with corpora or interested in phonology and phonetics, in language variation and change, dialectology, sociolinguistics and language acquisition across languages. Anne Przewozny-Desriaux, Cercles

Author Information

Jacques Durand is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail and a Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He was formerly Professor at the University of Salford, Director of the CLLE-ERSS research centre in Toulouse and in charge of Linguistics at CNRS headquarters. His publications are mainly in phonology (particularly within the framework of Dependency Phonology in collaboration with John Anderson) but he also worked in Machine Translation in the eighties and nineties within the Eurotra project. Since the late nineties, he has coordinated two major research programmes in corpus phonology: Phonology of Contemporary French, with M.-H. Côté, B. Laks and C. Lyche, and Phonology of Contemporary English, with P. Carr and A. Przewozny. Ulrike Gut holds the Chair of English Linguistics at the Westfälische Wilhelms-University in Münster. She received her Ph.D. from Mannheim University and her postdoctoral degree (Habilitation) from Freiburg University. Her main research interests include phonetics and phonology, corpus linguistics, second language acquisition and world-wide varieties of English. She has collected the LeaP corpus and is currently involved in the compilation of the ICE-Nigeria. Gjert Kristoffersen is Professor of Scandinavian languages at the University of Bergen. His research interests are synchronic and diachronic aspects of Scandinavian phonology, especially Norwegian and Swedish prosody from a variationist perspective. He is the author of The Phonology of Norwegian, published by Oxford University Press in 2000.

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