Spoken English on Computer

This book has evolved from a Workshop on Computerized Speech Corpora, held at Lancaster University in 1993. It brings together the findings presented in a clear and coherent manner, focussing on the advantages and disadvantages of particular transcription or mark-up practice. <p>List of Acronyms<br>List of Contributors<br>Editor's General Introduction<br><br><b>Part A: Issues and Practices</b><br>Introduction<br>1. Principles and alternative systems in the transcription, coding and mark-up of spoken discourse<br>2. Theoretical issues: transcribing the untranscribable<br>3. Adequacy, user-friendliness, and practicality in transcribing<br>4. Whole-text analysis in computerised spoken discourse<br>5. The text encoding initiative: an overview<br>6. The approach of the Text Encoding Initiative to the encoding of spoken discourse<br>7. From theory to practice<br><br><b>Part B: Applications and More Specialised Uses</b><br>Introduction<br>8. Transcription, segmentation and analysis: corpora from the language-impaired<br>9. Corpora of disordered language<br>10. Discourse considerations in transcription and analysis<br>11. Code switching: a problem for transcription and text encoding<br>12. Linking prosodic transcription to the time dimension<br>13. Grammar tagging of the spoken part of the British National Corpus: a progress report<br>14. Publishing a spoken and written corpus on CD ROM: the HCRC Map Task Experience<br><br><b>Part C: Samples and Systems of Transcription</b><br>Introduction<br>15. The survey of English usage and the London-Lund Corpus:computerizing manual prosodic transcription. 16. The COBUILDSpoken Corpus: transcription conventions<br>17. Recycling an old corpus: converting the SEC into the MARSEC database<br>18. The International Corpus of English: mark up for spoken language<br>19. The BNC Spoken Corpus<br>20. The Bergen Corpus of London Teenager Language (COLT)<br><br>Bibliography references<br>Subject index<br>Index of Person's names.</p>