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Informationen zum Autor Jacques Durand is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail and a Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He was formerly Professor at the University of Salford, Director of the CLLE-ERSS research centre in Toulouse and in charge of Linguistics at CNRS headquarters. His publications are mainly in phonology (particularly within the framework of Dependency Phonology in collaboration with John Anderson) but he also worked in Machine Translation in the eighties and nineties within the Eurotra project. Since the late nineties, he has coordinated two major research programmes in corpus phonology: Phonology of Contemporary French, with M.-H. Côté, B. Laks and C. Lyche, and Phonology of Contemporary English, with P. Carr and A. Przewozny.Ulrike Gut holds the Chair of English Linguistics at the Westfälische Wilhelms-University in Münster. She received her Ph.D. from Mannheim University and her postdoctoral degree (Habilitation) from Freiburg University. Her main research interests include phonetics and phonology, corpus linguistics, second language acquisition and world-wide varieties of English. She has collected the LeaP corpus and is currently involved in the compilation of the ICE-Nigeria.Gjert Kristoffersen is Professor of Scandinavian languages at the University of Bergen. His research interests are synchronic and diachronic aspects of Scandinavian phonology, especially Norwegian and Swedish prosody from a variationist perspective. He is the author of The Phonology of Norwegian, published by Oxford University Press in 2000. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Jacques Durand, Ulrike Gut, and Gjert Kristoffersen: Introduction Part I: Phonological Corpora: Design, Compilation, and Exploitation 2: Ulrike Gut and Holger Voorman: Corpus Design 3: Bruce Birch: Data Collection 4: Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie and Brechtje Post: Corpus Annotation: Methodology and Transcription Systems 5: Catia Cucchiarini and Helmer Strik: On Automatic Phonological Transcription of Speech Corpora 6: Hermann Moisl: Statistical Corpus Exploitation 7: Peter Wittenburg, Paul Trilsbeek, and Florian Wittenburg: Corpus Archiving and Dissemination 8: Daan Broeder and Dieter van Uytyanck: Metadata Formats 9: Laurent Romary and Andreas Witt: Data Formats for Phonological Corpora Part II: Applications 10: Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie and Hijon Yoo: Corpus and Research in Phonetics and Phonology: Methodological and Formal Considerations 11: Hanne Gram Simonsen and Gjert Kristoffersen: A Corpus-Based Study of Apicalization of /s/ before /l/ in Oslo Norwegian 12: Jacques Durand: Corpora, Variation, and Phonology: An Illustration from French Liaison 13: Yvan Rose: Corpus-Based Investigations of Child Phonological Development: Formal and Practical Considerations 14: Ulrike Gut: Second Language Acquisition Part III: Tools and Methods 15: Hans Sloetjes: ELAN: Multimedia Annotation Application 16: Tina John and Lasse Bombien: EMU 17: Paul Boersma: The use of Praat in corpus research 18: Caren Brinckmann: Praat Scripting 19: Yvan Rose and Brian McWhinney: The PhonBank Project: Data and Software-Assisted Methods for the Study of Phonology and Phonological De...
