Introduction: Spoken corpora and linguistic studies

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: Spoken corpora and linguistic studies 1
5. Section I: Experiences and requirements of spoken corpora compilation
6. Methodological issues for spontaneous speech corpora compilation 27
7. A multilingual speech corpus of North-Germanic languages 69
8. Methodological considerations for the development and use of sign language acquisition corpora 84
9. Section II: Multilevel corpus annotation
10. The grammatical annotation of speech corpora 105
11. The IPIC resource and a cross-linguistic analysis of information structure in Italian and Brazilian Portuguese 129
12. The variation of action verbs in multilingual spontaneous speech corpora 152
13. Section III: Prosody and its functional levels
14. Speech and corpora 191
15. Corpus design for studying the expression of emotion in speech 210
16. Illocution, attitudes and prosody 233
17. Exploring the prosody of stance 271
18. Section IV: Syntax and Information Structure
19. Prosody and information structure 297
20. The notion of sentence and other discourse units in corpus annotation 331
21. Syntactic properties of spontaneous speech in the Language into Act Theory 365
22. Prosodic constraints for discourse markers 411
23. Appendix 468
24. Index 496