A Corpus of Formal British English Speech: The Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus

by Gerry Knowles, Lita Taylor, Briony Williams

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317899440
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/22/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	762 KB

About the Author

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.

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.