Working with speech : perspectives on research into the Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus
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Working with speech : perspectives on research into the Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus
Longman, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-236) and index
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Working with Speech marks an important advance in understanding and extending the use of corpora of spoken English in the major new field of speech research. Individual essays analyse the preparation of the corpus, the issues underlying transcription , grammatical analysis and the application of the corpus in speech research.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors Foreword: The Spoken English Corpus in its Context, Geoffrey Leech Acknowledgements Abbreviations and acronyms Availability of the Spoken English Corpus Section A: Compiling and Transcribing a Corpus of Speech 1. The status of corpora as linguistic data, Briony Williams 2. The compilation of the Spoken English Corpus, Lita Taylor 3. The formulation of an intonation transcription system for British English, Briony Williams Section B: Evaluation 4. Analysis of transcriber differences in the SEC, Brian Pickering, Briony Williams & Gerry Knowles 5. The value of prosodic transcriptions, Gerry Knowles Section C: Analysis 6. Distributional features of TSMs in the SEC, Brian Pickering 7. The correlation between punctuation and tone group boundaries, Lita Taylor 8. From text structure to prosodic structure, Gerry Knowles 9. Prosodic style: a corpus-based approach, Anne Wichmann Section D : Application in Speech Synthesis 10. Synthesising British English intonation, Briony Williams & Peter Alderson 11. Synthesi
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