Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies

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Tommaso Raso | Federal University of Minas Gerais

Heliana Mello | Federal University of Minas Gerais

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The authors of this book share a common interest in the following topics: the importance of corpora compilation for the empirical study of human language; the importance of pragmatic categories such as emotion, attitude, illocution and information structure in linguistic theory; and a passionate belief in the central role of prosody for the analysis of speech. Four distinct sections (spoken corpora compilation; spoken corpora annotation; prosody; and syntax and information structure) give the book the structure in which the authors present innovative methodologies that focus on the compilation of third generation spoken corpora; multilevel spoken corpora annotation and its functions; and additionally a debate is initiated about the reference unit in the study of spoken language via information structure. The book is accompanied by a web site with a rich array of audio/video files. The web site can be found at the following address: DOI: 10.1075/scl.61.media

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 61] 2014. vii, 498 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.61

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements | p. vii

Introduction: Spoken corpora and linguistic studies: Problems and perspectives

Tommaso Raso and Heliana Ribeiro De Mello | pp. 1–24

Section I: Experiences and requirements of spoken corpora compilation

Methodological issues for spontaneous speech corpora compilation: The case of C-ORAL-BRASIL

Heliana Ribeiro De Mello | pp. 27–68

A multilingual speech corpus of North-Germanic languages

Janne Bondi Johannessen, Øystein Alexander Vangsnes, Joel Priestley and Kristin Hagen | pp. 69–83

Methodological considerations for the development and use of sign language acquisition corpora

Ronice Müller de Quadros, Diane Lillo-Martin and Deborah Chen Pichler | pp. 84–102

Section II: Multilevel corpus annotation

The grammatical annotation of speech corpora: Techniques and perspectives

Eckhard Bick | pp. 105–128

The IPIC resource and a cross-linguistic analysis of information structure in Italian and Brazilian Portuguese

Alessandro Panunzi and Maryualê M. Mittmann | pp. 129–151

The variation of action verbs in multilingual spontaneous speech corpora: Semantic typology and corpus design

Massimo Moneglia | pp. 152–188

Section III: Prosody and its functional levels

Speech and corpora: How spontaneous speech analysis changed our point of view on some linguistic facts: The case of sentence intonation in French

Philippe Martin | pp. 191–209

Corpus design for studying the expression of emotion in speech

Klaus R. Scherer | pp. 210–232

Illocution, attitudes and prosody: A multimodal analysis

João Antônio de Moraes and Albert Rilliard | pp. 233–270

Exploring the prosody of stance: Variation in the realization of stance adverbials

Douglas Biber and Shelley Staples | pp. 271–294

Section IV: Syntax and Information Structure

Prosody and information structure: Segmentation, integration, and in between

Marianne Mithun | pp. 297–330

The notion of sentence and other discourse units in corpus annotation

Paola Pietrandrea, Sylvain Kahane, Anne Lacheret-Dujour and Frédéric Sabio | pp. 331–364

Syntactic properties of spontaneous speech in the Language into Act Theory: Data on Italian complements and relative clauses

Emanuela Cresti | pp. 365–410

Prosodic constraints for discourse markers

Tommaso Raso | pp. 411–467

Appendix: Notes on the Language into Act Theory

Massimo Moneglia and Tommaso Raso | pp. 468–495

Index | pp. 496–498

“This is a very rich collection of papers by very eminent scholars, which makes a comprehensive, unified statement about spoken corpus study and its essential contribution to our perception of language per se. This cutting-edge research of spoken language does not lean on commonly accepted notions and theories, but sets off to show what can be learned from spoken corpora in establishing new strategies by novel thinking. The volume includes chapters in several sections, starting with corpus compilation and corpus structure, going through corpus annotation and empirical work, dealing with the exploitation of corpora for core linguistic domains, and finally getting to other linguistic, sociolinguistic and paralinguistic domains. This volume should – and hopefully will – serve as an impetus to an enhanced phase in the study of spoken languages and language in general.”

Shlomo Izre’el, Tel-Aviv University

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Erratum

Due to a mishap in production a non-final version of the article by Johannessen et al. was published in the print edition of the book. Please find a corrected, complimentary full text version here.

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