The Oxford Handbook of Corpus Phonology (Oxford Handbooks)

This handbook presents the first systematic account of corpus phonology - the employment of corpora, especially purpose-built phonological corpora of spoken language, for studying speakers' and listeners' acquisition and knowledge of the sound system of their native languages and the principles underlying those systems. The field combines methods and theoretical approaches from phonology, both diachronic and synchronic, phonetics, corpus linguistics, speech technology, information technology and computer science, mathematics and statistics. The book is divided into four parts: the first looks at the design, compilation, and use of phonological corpora, while the second looks at specific applications, including examples from French and Norwegian phonology, child phonological development, and second language acquisition. Part 3 looks at the tools and methods used, such as Praat and EXMARaLDA, and the final part examines a number of currently available phonological corpora in various languages, including LANCHART, LeaP, and IViE. It will appeal not only to those working with phonological corpora, but also to researchers and students of phonology and phonetics more generally, as well as to all those interested in language variation, dialectology, first and second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics. Cover The Oxford Handbook of Corpus Phonology Series Copyright Contents List of Contributors 1 Introduction PART I Phonological Corpora: Design, Compilation, and Exploitation 2 Corpus Design 3 Data Collection 4 Corpus Annotation: Methodology and Transcription Systems 5 On Automatic Phonological Transcription of Speech Corpora 6 Statistical Corpus Exploitation 7 Corpus Archiving and Dissemination 8 Metadata Formats 9 Data Formats for Phonological Corpora PART II Applications 10 Corpus and Research in Phonetics and Phonology: Methodological and Formal Considerations 11 A Corpus-Based Study of Apicalization of /s/ before /l/ in Oslo Norwegian 12 Corpora, Variation, and Phonology: An Illustration from French Liaison 13 Corpus-Based Investigations of Child Phonological Development: Formal and Practical Considerations 14 Corpus Phonology and Second Language Acquisition PART III Tools and Methods 15 ELAN: Multimedia Annotation Application 16 EMU 17 The Use of Praat in Corpus Research 18 Praat Scripting 19 The PhonBank Project: Data and Software-Assisted Methods for the Study of Phonology and Phonological Development 20 EXMARaLDA 21 ANVIL: The Video Annotation Research Tool 22 Web-based Archiving and Sharing of Phonological Corpora PART IV Corpora 23 The IViE Corpus 24 French Phonology from a Corpus Perspective: The PFC Programme 25 Two Norwegian Speech Corpora: NoTa-Oslo and TAUS 26 The LeaP Corpus 27 The Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: Annotation Practices and Dissemination Strategies 28 The LANCHART Corpus 29 Phonological and Phonetic Databases at the Meertens Institute 30 The VALIBEL Speech Database 31 Prosody and Discourse in the Australian Map Task Corpus 32 A Phonological Corpus of L1 Acquisition of Taiwan Southern Min References Index Annotation. This handbook presents the first systematic account of corpus phonology - the employment of corpora, especially purpose-built phonological corpora of spoken language, for studying speakers' and listeners' acquisition and knowledge of the sound system of their native languages and the principles underlying those systems. The field combines methods and theoretical approaches from phonology, both diachronic and synchronic, phonetics, corpus linguistics, speechtechnology, information technology and computer science, mathematics and statistics. The book is divided into four parts: the first looks at the design, compilation, and use of phonological corpora, while the second looks at specific applications, including examples from French and Norwegian phonology, child phonological development, and second language acquisition. Part 3 looks at the tools and methods used, such as Praat and EXMARaLDA, and the final part examines a number of currently available phonological corpora in various languages, including LANCHART, LeaP, and IViE. It will appeal not only to those working with phonological corpora, but also to researchers and students of phonology and phonetics more generally, as well as to all those interested in language variation, dialectology, first and second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics This handbook presents the first systematic account of corpus phonology - the employment of corpora for studying speakers'and listeners'acquisition and knowledge of the sound system of their native languages and the principles underlying those systems. The first part of the book discusses the design, compilation, and use of phonological corpora, while the second looks at specific applications. Part 3 presents the tools and methods used, while the final part examines a number of currently available phonological corpora in various languages. It will appeal not only to those working with phonological corpora, but also to researchers and students of phonology and phonetics more generally, as well as to all those interested in language variation, dialectology, language acquisition, and sociolinguistics.