Prosodic segmentation and cross-linguistic comparison in CorpAfroAs and CorTypo: Corpus-driven and corpus-based approaches

dc.contributor.author Mettouchi, Amina
dc.contributor.author Vanhove, Martine
dc.date.accessioned 2022-01-24T19:37:35Z
dc.date.available 2022-01-24T19:37:35Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.description.abstract The paper addresses the issue of corpus-design in relation to research questions for under-described languages. It shows how a corpus emerges from the methodology and habitus of its contributors, and how it is shaped by the technical tools used for data organization. It also underlines the ways in which a morphosyntactically annotated corpus, segmented into intonation units, is amenable to a wide array of searches, both corpus-based and corpus-driven, and both formal and functional. After a presentation of the annotation layout, and the segmentation choices that characterize the two projects, CorpAfroAs and CorTypo, scientific results are illustrated for two languages, Kabyle and Beja, and more marginally for Zaar, Juba Arabic, and Modern Hebrew. They exemplify corpus-driven and corpus-based approaches of information structure and grammatical relations. Both types of approaches plead for an integrated view of prosody, closely interacting with syntax, semantics, phonology, information structure, and all levels of human communication and cognition. They also plead for a general endeavour to annotate as much as possible the large array of prosodic cues that are inseparable from speech processing and interaction dynamics.
dc.identifier.citation Mettouchi, Amina & Vanhove, Martine. 2021. Prosodic segmentation and cross-linguistic comparison in CorpAfroAs and CorTypo: Corpus-driven and corpus-based approaches. In Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan & Seifart, Frank (eds.), Doing corpus-based typology with spoken language data: State of the art, 59–113. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press.
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-9979673-0-2
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/74658
dc.publisher University of Hawai'i Press
dc.relation.ispartofseries LD&C Special Publication
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike Licence
dc.subject prosody
dc.subject morphosyntax
dc.subject information structure
dc.subject reported speech
dc.subject corpus
dc.subject Afro-Asiatic
dc.title Prosodic segmentation and cross-linguistic comparison in CorpAfroAs and CorTypo: Corpus-driven and corpus-based approaches
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