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A Corpus of Formal British English Speech Gerry Knowles

A Corpus of Formal British English Speech By Gerry Knowles

A Corpus of Formal British English Speech by Gerry Knowles

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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.

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

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.

About Gerry Knowles

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.

Additional information

NPB9780582056398
9780582056398
058205639X
A Corpus of Formal British English Speech: The Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus by Gerry Knowles
Gerry Knowles
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1996-08-14
280
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