Combining documentary linguistics and corpus phonetics to advance corpus-based typology

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dc.contributor.author Seifart, Frank
dc.date.accessioned 2022-01-24T19:37:30Z
dc.date.available 2022-01-24T19:37:30Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.description.abstract This article argues that documentary linguistics and corpus phonetics can form a happy marriage in that corpora extracted from language documentation collections contain highly relevant data that can advance corpus phonetics by enabling broad comparative studies. To make this point, this article reviews previous research on phonetic lengthening at utterance boundaries and pause probabilities before nouns and verbs in ten languages. I then introduce the DoReCo initiative, which, based on experience gained from these studies, builds a database of time-aligned corpora from documentary collections of 50 languages for corpus phonetic research and other research purposes.
dc.identifier.citation Seifart, Frank. 2021. Combining documentary linguistics and corpus phonetics to advance corpus-based typology. In Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan & Seifart, Frank (eds.), Doing corpus-based typology with spoken language data: State of the art, 115–139. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press.
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-9979673-0-2
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/74659
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 documentary linguistics
dc.subject corpus phonetics
dc.subject typology
dc.subject electronic corpora
dc.title Combining documentary linguistics and corpus phonetics to advance corpus-based typology
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