Full Description
A range of electronic corpora is increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This development coincided with improved standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. This book looks at developing similar standards for enriching and preserving unconventional data: dialects, child language and bilingual databases.
Contents
Notes on Contributors Foreword: S.Poplack Taming Digital Voices and Texts: Models and Methods for Handling Unconventional Synchronic Corpora; J.C.Beal, K.P.Corrigan & H.L.Moisl SCOTS: Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech; J.Anderson, D.Beavan & C.Kay FRED - The Freiburg English Dialect Corpus; L.Anderwald & S.Wagner The Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects (SAND): A Corpus of Elicited Speech as an On-line Dynamic Atlas; S.Barbiers, L.Cornips & J-P.Kunst Coding and Analyzing Multilingual Data: The LIDES Project; P.Gardner-Chloros, M.G.Moyer & M.Sebba ICE-Ireland: Local Variations on Global Standards; J.Kallen & J.Kirk The Talkbank Project; B.MacWhinney Developing and Using a Corpus of Written Creole; M.Sebba & S.Dray Representing Real Language: Consistency, trade-offs and thinking ahead!; S.A.Tagliamonte Index
