This work provides 50, 000 words of prosodically-transcribed text from a variety of sources. The introduction explains fully the transcription conventions, the structure of the corpus and its relationship to other computer corpora, and provides examples of different versions of texts.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2014

ISBN

9781317899440

Edition

Topic

Filología

Subtopic

Lingüística

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Editor’s acknowledgements
Publisher’s acknowledgements
Introduction
Prosodic characters
The composition of the corpus
Speakers
Dates of composition and recording
The duration of text extracts
SEC text details
Versions of SEC material
Samples of different versions
Texts
Appendix 1: The CLAWS1 tagset
Appendix 2: Complete version of Through the Tunnel
References and bibliography