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Methodological issues for spontaneous speech corpora compilation

The case of C-ORAL-BRASIL
  • Heliana Ribeiro De Mello
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Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies
This chapter is in the book Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies

Abstract

Spontaneous Speech Corpus Compilation has been going through a growing period in the past 20 years. This is due majorly to technological advances that have been achieved allowing for highly accurate recording in vivo, new insights coming from empirically-based linguistic theory, concerns for the documentation of threatened languages and the high degree of relevance of findings to speech recognition applications. This paper discusses methodologies associated to spontaneous speech corpus compilation which shed light on specific aspects of relevance to the understanding of linguistic phenomena that pertain to spoken language. The compilation process of C-ORAL-BRASIL I, an informal spontaneous speech Brazilian Portuguese corpus, among other examples, is used as the basis for the discussion carried.

Abstract

Spontaneous Speech Corpus Compilation has been going through a growing period in the past 20 years. This is due majorly to technological advances that have been achieved allowing for highly accurate recording in vivo, new insights coming from empirically-based linguistic theory, concerns for the documentation of threatened languages and the high degree of relevance of findings to speech recognition applications. This paper discusses methodologies associated to spontaneous speech corpus compilation which shed light on specific aspects of relevance to the understanding of linguistic phenomena that pertain to spoken language. The compilation process of C-ORAL-BRASIL I, an informal spontaneous speech Brazilian Portuguese corpus, among other examples, is used as the basis for the discussion carried.

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
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.61.01mel

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
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