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Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies
Edited by Tommaso Raso and Heliana Mello
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 61] 2014
► pp. 129–151

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

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We present a multi-level XML online database, DB-IPIC, designed specifically for the study of linear relations among information units in spoken corpora. DB-IPIC adopts Language into Act Theory (L-ACT) as the basis for spoken language modeling. According to L-ACT, information is coded at the prosodic level: prosodic units relate to information units. By exploiting data from DB-IPIC, we produced a comparative study on information structure in Italian and Brazilian Portuguese. Language samples derive from C-ORAL-ROM Italian and C-ORAL-BRASIL corpora and received prosodic boundary annotation and information tagging according to the information functions proposed by L-ACT. We highlight the frequency of occurrence of information units and information patterns in Italian and Brazilian Portuguese.

Published online: 14 November 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.61.05pan
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