Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies

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Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction. Spoken corpora and linguistic studies: Problems and perspectives
1. Why this book
2. Some important issues
2.1 What do we intend when we consider speech as the natural modality of language?
2.2 Prosody
2.3 Illocution, attitude, emotion
2.4 Information structure
3. The content of the book
3.1 Experiences and requirements of spoken corpora compilation
3.2 Multilevel corpus annotation
3.3 Prosody and its functional levels
3.4 Syntax and information structure
References
Section I. Experiences and requirements of spoken corpora compilation
1. Methodological issues for spontaneous speech corpora compilation
1. Introduction
2. Speech corpora: State of the art and spontaneous speech
2.1 Speech corpora types
2.2 Spontaneous speech corpora
2.3 Spoken corpora and linguistic diasystem
3. Architecture of spontaneous speech corpora and the importance of diaphasy
3.1 The architecture
3.2 Spontaneous speech corpus branching
3.3 Interactional typologies
3.4 Diaphasic variation
3.5 Metadata
4. Data collection and treatment
4.1 Recordings
4.2 Speech representation and transcription
5. Usability
5.1 Alignment
5.2 Informational annotation
6. Conclusion
References
2. A multilingual speech corpus of North-Germanic languages
1. Introduction
2. Challenges in the corpus design and development
2.1 Methodology for collecting speech
2.2 Transcription and tagging
2.3 Metadata
2.4 Multilingual search
2.5 Links to audio and video
2.6 Results presented on maps
3. Results from research on the Nordic Dialect Corpus
4. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Links
3. Methodological considerations for the development and use of sign language acquisition corpora
1. Introduction
2. Metadata
3. Designing annotation patterns------
4. Sign IDs
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Section II. Multilevel corpus annotation
4. The grammatical annotation of speech corpora: Techniques and perspectives
1. Introduction
2. The corpora
3. Constraint Grammar
4. Parser architecture
5. CG adaptations for orality features in speech-like corpora
6. Cross-corpus parser evaluation
7. Comparing orality markers
7.1 General comparison
7.2 Pronouns
7.3 Emoticons
7.4 Non-standard syntax in TV news jargon: Examples and solutions
8. CG-Annotation of linguistically transcribed ordinary speech
9. C-ORAL-Brasil methodology - speech-specific adaptations
9.1 Text flow normalization
9.2 Tokenization
9.3 Lexical and orthographic normalization
9.4 Syntactic segmentation
10. Evaluating the PALAVRAS speech tagger
11. Conclusions and outlook
References
5. The IPIC resource and a cross-linguistic analysis of information structure
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical background
3. Implementation of L-ACT in spoken language corpora
3.1 Codification of prosodic parsing
3.2 Information tagging
3.3 Tagging non informative TUs
4. The IPIC resource for the study of information structure
4.1 Database building
4.2 Document structure
4.3 Web interface
5. Italian and Brazilian Portuguese comparable mini-corpora
6. Information Structure in spoken Italian and Brazilian
6.1 Main information structure typologies
6.2 Relative distribution of Utterances and Stanzas with respect to the interaction types
6.3 Compound Utterances
7. Final remarks
Acknowledgments
References
6. The variation of Action verbs in multilingual spontaneous speech corpora
1. Introduction
1.1 General verbs and semantic competence
1.2 Primary productive variation versus Marked variation
1.3 General versus Activity verbs
1.4 The structure of this paper
2. The linguistic representation of action and the exploitation of spontaneous speech repositories
2.1 The corpus-based strategy
2.2 Corpus Sampling requirements and the design of the Italian corpus in IMAGACT
2.3 The IMAGACT corpora
3. The Induction of the semantic variation of Action verbs
3.1 The strategy
3.2 The semantic variation of Action verbs and their distribution in the Italian Spoken Corpus
Conclusions
References
Section III. Prosody and its functional levels
7. How spontaneous speech analysis changed our point of view on some linguistic facts
1. Introduction
2. Technological advances
3. First results
4. Theoretical changes
4.1 Modality
4.2 Contrast of melodic slope in French
4.3 Congruence with syntax
4.4 Stress clash
4.5 Stress group
4.6 Left dislocation
4.7 Right dislocation
4.8 Parenthesis
4.9 Parallelism with syntax
5. Constrains revisited
6. A dynamic cognitive model
7. Delta and Theta waves
8. Conclusion
References
8. Corpus design for studying the expression of emotion in speech
1. What is an emotion and how is it different from other affective states?
1.1 Event focus
1.2 Appraisal driven
1.3 Response synchronization
1.4 Rapidity of change
1.5 Behavioral impact
1.6 Intensity
1.7 Duration
2. The expression of emotion - between push and pull
2.1 Bühler's Organon model of signs
2.2 Tripartite Emotion Expression and Perception model (TEEP)
3. What is the ideal spoken language corpus for studying emotional speech?
4. Guidelines for corpora research of vocal emotional expression
5. Research examples
5.1 Vocal markers of emotion: Comparing induction and acting elicitation
5.2 Understanding the vocal communication of emotion: A Brunswikian approach
6. Conclusion
References
9. Illocution, attitudes and prosody: A multimodal analysis
1. Introduction
2. A corpus of Brazilian Portuguese attitudes
2.1 Types of prosodic attitudes
2.2 Recording procedure
2.3 Prosodic analysis
2.4 Description of facial gestures
3. Multimodal perception of BP attitudes
3.1 Stimuli selected for perception
3.2 Experimental paradigm
3.3 Subjects
3.4 Results analysis: Analysis of variance
3.5 Results analysis: Confusion matrices
4. Discussion and conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
10. Exploring the prosody of stance: Variation in the realization of stance adverbials
1. Introduction
2. Methods
3. Distribution of adverbial stance expressions in the HKSC
4. Prosodic variation with adverbial stance expressions
5. Summary and conclusion
References
Section IV. Syntax and information structure
11. Syntactic and prosodic structures: Segmentation, integration, and in between
1. Introduction
2. Basic typology
3. The sentence: Syntactic and prosodic structure
3.1 Pragmatically marked constructions
3.2 Constituents: The Determiner Phrase
4. Illocutionary force
5. Structures across sentences
5.1 Discourse particles
5.2 Demonstratives
5.3 Rhetorical style
5.4 Interaction
6. Categorical distinctions versus clines
7. Conclusion
References
12. The notion of sentence and other discourse units in corpus annotation
1. Introduction
1.1 Organization of the article
2. The notion of sentence in grammatical tradition
3. The notion of sentence in corpus linguistics: A benchmark for the annotation task
4. A modular, bottom-up, inductive approach to the annotation task
4.1 Microsyntactic units: The notion of Government Unit (GU)
4.2 Beyond microsyntax: The notion of IU
4.3 The role of prosody: intonational periods, intonational packages, rhythmic units
5. Interactions between units
5.1 The interaction between IUs and GUs
5.2 The interaction between IUs
5.3 Interaction between prosodic and syntactic units
6. Conclusions
Appendix
References
13. Syntactic properties of spontaneous speech in the Language into Act Theory
1. Introduction
1.1 Premises
1.2 The Language into Act Theory
1.3 Combination vs compositionality
1.4 Modality in speech
1.5 Linearized syntax and patterned constructions
2. Premises on the syntactic particularity of speech
2.1 Simple verbless and verbal utterance strategies
2.2 Nominal predicates
2.3 Textual and pragmatic functions of coordinating and subordinate connectives
3. Linearized syntax and patterned constructions in speech
3.1 Completive and relative types
3.2 Linearized objective and non-restrictive relative clauses
3.3 Patterned constructions
3.4 Reported-speech, spoken thought, emblematic exemplification
3.5 Patterned constructions with "Theme in Topic"
3.6 Completive subordination in Appendix of Comment
3.7 Patterned non-restrictive relative constructions in parenthesis
4. Syntactic and modal independence of patterned constructions across utterances and TUs
4.1 Patterned constructions across utterances
4.2 Proofs of syntactic compositionality
4.3 Apparent completive subordination across utterances
4.4 Apparent non-restrictive relative subordination across utterances
4.5 Apparent circumstantial subordination across utterances
4.6 Apparent subordination relations across speakers and dialogical turns
4.7 The syntactic independence of textual units
4.8 Examples of patterned constructions in spoken thought, exemplification and parenthesis
5. Completive and relative subordination data in IPIC Italian
5.1 'Che' quantitative data
5.2 'Che' distributions and syntactic functions
5.3 Linearized subordination and patterned constructions
5.4 Conclusions
References
14. Prosodic constraints for discourse markers
1. Introduction
1.1 Outline of conflicting issues about Discourse Markers
1.2 How to identify a Discourse Marker
2. The Language into Act Theory (L-AcT)
3. Dialogic Units
3.1 General features
3.2 Incipit (INP)
3.3 Phatic (PHA)
3.4 Expressive (EXP)
3.5 Allocutive (ALL)
3.6 Conative (CNT)
3.7 Discourse Connector (DCT)
3.8 Some comparisons
3.9 Statistical validation: A discussion
4. Cross-linguistic differences
4.1 Frequency
4.2 Crosslinguistic differences: Lexical fulfillment
4.3 Crosslinguistic differences: Allocutives in four languages
4.4 The most important results about DUs contrastive studies in Italian and BP
5. Solving conflicting issues: Relevance of L-AcT and corpus methodology for pragmatic studies
References
Appendix. Notes on Language into Act Theory (L-AcT)
1. Introduction
2. Utterance and illocutionary force
3. The Comment unit
4. The typology of information units and the information structure of utterances
4.1 Textual Information Units
4.2 Dialogic units
4.3 Beyond the prosody/information isomorphism
References
Index
2. A multilingual speech corpus of North-Germanic languages
1. Introduction
2. Challenges in the corpus design and development
2.1 Methodology for collecting speech
2.2 Transcription and tagging
2.3 Metadata
2.4 Multilingual search
2.5 Links to audio and video
2.6 Results presented on maps
3. Results from research on the Nordic Dialect Corpus
4. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Links

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