The Oxford Handbook of Corpus Phonology

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. The field combines methods and theoretical approaches from phonology, both diachronic and synchronic, phonetics, corpus linguistics, speech technology, information technology and computer science, mathematics and statistics. The book is divided into four parts: the first looks at the design, compilation, and use of phonological corpora, while the second looks at specific applications, including examples from French and Norwegian phonology, child phonological development, and second language acquisition. Part 3 looks at the tools and methods used, such as Praat and EXMARaLDA, and the final part examines a number of currently available phonological corpora in various languages, including LANCHART, LeaP, and IViE. It will appeal not only to those working with phonological corpora, but also to researchers and students of phonology and phonetics more generally, as well as to all those interested in language variation, dialectology, first and second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics. this Handbook fulfils its aims as a high-level reference work in corpus phonology and as a comprehensive practical guide for a better handling of linguistic corpora in their international and scientific diversity. It will be of interest to any well-informed researcher or advanced student already committed to working with corpora or interested in phonology and phonetics, in language variation and change, dialectology, sociolinguistics and language acquisition across languages. Anne Przewozny-Desriaux, Cercles1. Introduction ; PART I: PHONOLOGICAL CORPORA: DESIGN, COMPILATION, AND EXPLOITATION ; 2. Corpus Design ; 3. Data Collection ; 4. Corpus Annotation: Methodology and Transcription Systems ; 5. On Automatic Phonological Transcription of Speech Corpora ; 6. Statistical Corpus Exploitation ; 7. Corpus Archiving and Dissemination ; 8. Metadata Formats ; 9. Data Formats for Phonological Corpora ; PART II: APPLICATIONS ; 10. Corpus and Research in Phonetics and Phonology: Methodological and Formal Considerations ; 11. A Corpus-Based Study of Apicalization of /s/ before /l/ in Oslo Norwegian ; 12. Corpora, Variation, and Phonology: An Illustration from French Liaison ; 13. Corpus-Based Investigations of Child Phonological Development: Formal and Practical Considerations ; 14. Second Language Acquisition ; PART III: TOOLS AND METHODS ; 15. ELAN: Multimedia Annotation Application ; 16. EMU ; 17. The use of Praat in corpus research ; 18. Praat Scripting ; 19. The PhonBank Project: Data and Software-Assisted Methods for the Study of Phonology and Phonological Development ; 20. EXMARaLDA ; 21. ANVIL: The Video Annotation Research Tool ; 22. Web-Based Archiving and Sharing of Phonological Corpora ; PART IV: CORPORA ; 23. The IViE Corpus ; 24. French Phonology from a Corpus Perspective: The PFC Programme ; 25. Two Norwegian Speech Corpora: No Ta-Oslo and TAUS ; 26. The LeaP Corpus ; 27. The Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: Annotation Practices and Dissemination Strategies ; 28. The LANCHART Corpus ; 29. Phonological and Phonetic Databases at the Meertens Institute ; 30. The VALIBEL Speech Database ; 31. Prosody and discourse in the Australian Map Task Corpus ; 32. A Phonological Corpus of L1 Acquistion of Taiwan Southern Min