Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Volume 1: Synchronic Databases

by J. Beal (Editor), K. Corrigan (Editor), H. Moisl (Editor)

Overview

A range of electronic corpora is increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This development coincided with improved standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. This book looks at developing similar standards for enriching and preserving unconventional data: dialects, child language and bilingual databases.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349522330
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2007
Edition description:	1st ed. 2007
Pages:	245
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

JEAN ANDERSON is the Resource Development Officer for the School of English and Scottish Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK LIESELOTTE ANDERWALD is Assistant Professor of English Linguistics at Freiburg University, Germany SJEF BARBIERS is Special Researcher at the Meertens Institute, Amsterdam and Professor of Variationist Linguistics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands DAVE BEAVAN is Computing Manager for the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech at the University of Glasgow, UK LEONIE CORNIPS is Senior Researcher of Syntax and Sociolinguistics and Head of Department at the Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands SUSAN DRAY is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster, UK PENELOPE GARDNER-CHLOROS is a Lecturer in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London, UK ELIZABETH GORDON taught at the University of Canterbury from 1967 until she retired in 2003 as an Associate Professor. She is co-leader of the University of Canterbury research team on Origins of New Zealand English (ONZE), New Zealand JENNIFER HAY is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury and is also a member of the ONZE Team, New Zealand CHRISTIAN KAY is Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in English Language at the University of Glasgow, UK and Convener of Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd. JEFFREY KALLEN is a Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Phonetics at Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland JOHN KIRK is a senior lecturer in English and Scottish Language at Queen's University Belfast, UK JAN-PIETER KUNST works as a software developer at the Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands MARGARET MACLAGAN is a Senior Lecturer in Communication Disorders at the University of Canterbury. She is also a member of the ONZE research team, New Zealand BRIAN MACWHINNEY Professor of Psychology and Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University, USA MELISSA G. MOYER is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain SHANA POPLACK, University of Ottawa, Canada MARK SEBBA is Reader in Sociolinguistics and Language Contact in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK SALI A. TAGLIAMONTE, University of Toronto, Canada SUSANNE WAGNER is currently doing research on English in Newfoundland

Table of Contents

List of Tables     vi
List of Figures     vii
Foreword   Shana Poplack     ix
Notes on the Contributors     xiv
List of Abbreviations     xviii
Taming Digital Voices and Texts: Models and Methods for Handling Unconventional Synchronic Corpora   Joan C. Beal   Karen P. Corrigan   Hermann L. Moisl     1
SCOTS: Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech   Jean Anderson   Dave Beavan   Christian Kay     17
FRED - The Freiburg English Dialect Corpus: Applying Corpus-Linguistic Research Tools to the Analysis of Dialect Data   Lieselotte Anderwald   Susanne Wagner     35
The Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects (SAND): A Corpus of Elicited Speech as an On-line Dynamic Atlas   Sjef Barbiers   Leonie Cornips   Jan-Pieter Kunst     54
Coding and Analysing Multilingual Data: The LIDES Project   Penelope Gardner-Chloros   Melissa Moyer   Mark Sebba     91
ICE-Ireland: Local Variations on Global Standards   Jeffrey Kallen   John Kirk     121
The Talkbank Project   Brian MacWhinney     163
Developing and Using a Corpus of Written Creole   Mark Sebba   Susan Dray     181
Representing Real Language: Consistency, Trade-Offs and Thinking Ahead!   Sail A. Tagliamonte     205
Index     241

Editorial Reviews

'A unique collection of essays on corpus projects that are fundamentally different from the wide range of general reference corpora of standard English(es)' - Joybrato Mukherjee, English World-Wide

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