Corpora of spoken Lithuanian

Dabašinskiené, Ineta; Kamandulytė, Laura

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“…Familiar interaction considered typical for private conversations, family members, or friends when speaking in an informal way. Institutional interaction, in contrary, take place in different institutional environments: at work, bank, school, shop, market, and other places where speakers usually keep a distance and resort to a more formal way of communication (Dabašinskienė, Kamandulytė, 2009). Certainly, specifics of spoken language depends not only on the situation and setting of communication, but also on the gender, age, education, or occupation of the speaker, e.g., adults addressing young children or old people tend to modify their language (Kamandulytė, 2006(Kamandulytė, , 2007.…”

Section: Methodology Of Development Of the Corpus: The First Stagementioning

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“…The recorded speech was transcribed according the CHAT (Codes for the Human Analysis of Transcripts) requirements of CHILDES (Child Language Data Exchange System) (MacWhinney, 2000). The main rules and processes of the transcription have been discussed in detail by Dabašinskienė and Kamandulytė (2009) but we still would like to emphasize an issue of speech segmentation we have faced with when transcribing the data. While a sentence is generally considered the main syntactical unit of written language, the main units of spoken language are still under discussion.…”

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“…Systematic studies in natural spoken Lithuanian started in 2006 along with development of sufficient data basis collected by a group of researchers at Vytautas Magnus University 1 and called the Corpus of Spontaneous Spoken Lithuanian (Dabašinskienė, Kamandulytė, 2009). (Before 2006, some aspects of spoken TV and radio language in formal communication had been analyzed by several Lithuanian researchers (Vaicekauskienė, 2005; Girčienė, Tamaševičius 2012), but systematic morphological, syntactic or lexical features of spontaneous adult communication had not been investigated due to a lack of sufficient data basis.…”

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“…of morphological ambiguity in Lithuanian language this stage of the Corpus development was extremely time consuming and required not only time and human resources but also special training. The main principles of morphological coding of the Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian and methodological discussions can be found in the papers ofKamandulytė and Savickienė (2008),Dabašinskienė and Kamandulytė (2009).The development of the Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian has lead to a constant increase in studies on adult spontaneous communication. Various papers have dealt with a distribution of parts of speech in different registers and types of spoken language(Kamandulytė, Tuškevičiūtė, 2009), forms and functions of diminutives(Dabašinskienė, 2009a), distribution and use of different grammatical forms(Dabašinskienė, 2008), morphological features of spoken Lithuanian(Dabašinskienė, 2008(Dabašinskienė, , 2009b, variation of inflectional paradigms in the new morphologically integrated loanwords (Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė, 2010), forms and distribution of fillers(Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė, 2014).…”

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Syntactically Coded Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian: Developmental Issues and Pilot Studies

Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė¹,

Balčiūnienė²

2016

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The paper deals with the main methodological issues of development of the Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian with particular attention to its syntactic coding and applications for automatized language analysis. First, we consider a methodology of development of the Corpus as well as the principles of transcribing and coding Lithuanian speech data. The main concepts, such as "utterance" "sentence", etc. are discussed. Second, we present results of a pilot study in interrogatives that are typical for natural spontaneous spoken Lithuanian. Results of the automatized analysis of interrogatives revealed that a frequency and distribution of the Wh-and yes/ no questions is rather similar. Among the Wh-questions, the questions non-containing the interrogative particle seem to be dominant, while the questions containing the interrogative particle at the beginning ot at the end were much rarer. Among the different functional subtypes of Wh-questions, adverbial ones seem to be the most freequent; among the adverbial Wh-questions, the spatial ones were the most frequent. Certainly, the present study is rather pilot due to the novelty of automatized syntactic approach to the data of spoken Lithuanian, thus much more complex studies still await for future investigations. A use of interrogative sentences will be studied from the perspective of different genres (e.g., monologue vs dialogue), social characteristic of the speakers, and a situation of conversation (e.g., public vs private speech). Generally, we believe that future systematic corpus-based research of spontaneous spoken language will give more possibilities to identify, evaluate, and elaborate the development of the Lithuanian language.

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Syntactically Coded Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian: Developmental Issues and Pilot Studies

Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė¹,

Balčiūnienė²

2016

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“…Jungiamieji žodžiai straipsnyje suprantami kaip žodžiai (įvardžiai, jungtukai, prieveiksmiai), kuriais šalutinis pažymimojo pasakymo dėmuo prijungiamas prie pagrindinio. 7 Plačiau apie tekstyną skaitytiKamandulytė ir Savickienė 2007;Dabašinskienė ir Kamandulytė 2009.…”

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The use of attributive clauses in spoken Lithuanian

Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė

Balčiūnienė

2016

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The syntactic features of spoken Lithuanian are still under-researched due to insufficient data bases, limited technologies, and research methodologies. During the last years, the "Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian" (developed at Vytautas Magnus University; 225,000 words; 80 hours of digitalized audio recordings) has been syntactically annotated, and this has enabled complex automatized syntactic analysis. In the present paper, one of the first such studies is presented and its results are discussed. The corpus linguistics methodology has been employed.The paper deals with the frequency and basic types of attributive clauses in spoken Lithuanian language. The results of the study have highlighted that attributive clauses tend to be more frequent (up to 15% of all subordinate clauses) in public speech, and they are significantly less frequent (up to 7% of all subordinate clauses) in private spontaneous speech.The position of a subordinate clause after the head noun is unmarked and the most frequent in public speech and spontaneous private speech. Consequently, 65% and 88% of all attributive adjectives followed the head noun in private spontaneous speech and in public speech. Since in Lithuanian the word order is not so strict, in private spontaneous speech constructions with a subordinate clause before the head noun are used.The analysis of subordinating conjunctions and relative pronouns has revealed that in public speech the link between a subordinate clause and an independent clause tends to be expressed by the relative pronoun "kuris", "kuri" (‘which’). Namely, in public speech, this pronoun is employed in 85% of all attributive clauses. The number of relative pronouns in private spoken speech reaches only 30%, whereas the subordinating conjunction "kur" (‘where’) has been used in the majority of attributive clauses (51%).The findings of the study reveal the main tendencies in the distribution and frequency of attributive clauses and suggest that the usage of attributive clauses depends, to a large extent, on the register of spoken language.

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The roles of word-form frequency and phonological neighbourhood density in the acquisition of Lithuanian noun morphology

2017

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A B S T R A C TFour-and five-year-old children took part in an elicited familiar and novel Lithuanian noun production task to test predictions of input-based accounts of the acquisition of inflectional morphology. Two major findings emerged. First, as predicted by input-based accounts, correct production rates were correlated with the input frequency of the target form, and with the phonological neighbourhood density of the noun. Second, the error patterns were not compatible with the systematic substitution of target forms by either (a) the most frequent form of that noun or (b) a single morphosyntactic default form, as might be predicted by naive versions of a constructivist and generativist account, respectively. Rather, most errors reflected near-miss substitutions of singular for plural, masculine for feminine, or nominative/accusative for a less frequent case. Together, these findings provide support for an

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Corpora of spoken Lithuanian

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Syntactically Coded Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian: Developmental Issues and Pilot Studies

Syntactically Coded Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian: Developmental Issues and Pilot Studies

The use of attributive clauses in spoken Lithuanian

The roles of word-form frequency and phonological neighbourhood density in the acquisition of Lithuanian noun morphology

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