Exploring Natural Language

Nelson, Gerald; Wallis, Sean; Aarts, Bas

doi:10.1075/veaw.g29

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“…For instance, Collins publishers' WordBanks Online (https://www.collins.co.uk/page/ Wordbanks+Online) offers paid access to a 57-million-word subcorpus of the Bank of English (containing data from British English and American English sources, 61 million words of which is spoken); the charges range, at time of this writing, from a minimum of £695 up to £3,000 per year of access. Likewise, the British component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-GB), containing one million words of written and spoken data from the 1990s (Nelson et al 2002: 3), costs over £400 for a single, non-student license (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/projects/ice-gb/ iceorder2.htm). Some other corpora are generally available, but sample a more narrowly defined regional variety of English than simply 'British English'.…”

Section: Other British English Corpora Containing Spoken Conversationmentioning

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The Spoken BNC2014

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Dembry

Hardie

et al. 2022

IJCL

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This paper introduces the Spoken British National Corpus 2014, an 11.5-million-word corpus of orthographically transcribed conversations among L1 speakers of British English from across the UK, recorded in the years 2012–2016. After showing that a survey of the recent history of corpora of spoken British English justifies the compilation of this new corpus, we describe the main stages of the Spoken BNC2014’s creation: design, data and metadata collection, transcription, XML encoding, and annotation. In doing so we aim to (i) encourage users of the corpus to approach the data with sensitivity to the many methodological issues we identified and attempted to overcome while compiling the Spoken BNC2014, and (ii) inform (future) compilers of spoken corpora of the innovations we implemented to attempt to make the construction of corpora representing spontaneous speech in informal contexts more tractable, both logistically and practically, than in the past.

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Section: Other British English Corpora Containing Spoken Conversationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Spoken BNC2014

Love

Dembry

Hardie

et al. 2022

IJCL

244

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“…All instances of all forms of all three verbs were identified using one of two corpus interface software packages: AntConc (Anthony 2014) for ICE-SIN and ICE-HK, and the bespoke ICECUP (Nelson et al 2002) software that is packaged with ICE-GB. The ICE components investigated here are sampled to represent spoken and written English native to Singapore, Hong Kong and Great Britain (Greenbaum 1996).…”

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Light verb semantics in theInternational Corpus of English: onomasiological variation, identity evidence and degrees of lightness

Mehl¹

2017

English Language and Linguistics

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“…Further examples with reversed polarity tags, taken from the British component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-GB; Nelson et al . 2002; see section 2) are shown in (2); pos-neg refers to a positive verb in the host and a negation in the QT; neg-pos to the reverse. As shown in examples (1c) and (3), constant polarity tags ( reduplicative tags in McCawley's 1998: 501 terminology) occur, too, but according to Huddleston & Pullum et al .…”

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The prosody of question tags in English

Dehé¹,

Braun²

2013

English Language and Linguistics

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The prosodic realization of English question tags (QTs) has received some interest in the literature; yet corpus studies on the factors affecting their phrasing and intonational realization are very rare or limited to a certain aspect. This article presents a quantitative corpus study of 370 QTs from the International Corpus of English that were annotated for prosodic phrasing and intonational realization of the QT and the host. Factors tested were polarity, position in the sentence and the turn as well as verb type. Generally, prosodic phrasing and intonational realization were highly correlated: separate QTs were mostly realized with a falling contour, while integrated QTs were mostly rising. Results from regression models showed a strong effect of polarity: QTs with an opposite polarity were more often phrased separately compared to QTs with constant polarity, but the phrasing of opposite polarity QTs was further dependent on whether the QT was negative or positive (more separate phrasing in negative QTs). Furthermore, prosodic separation was more frequent at the end of syntactic phrases and clauses compared to phrase-medial QTs. At the end of a turn, speakers realized more rising contours compared to QTs within a speaker's turn. Verb type also had an effect on the phrasing of the tag. Taken together, our results confirm some of the claims previously held for QTs, while others are modified and new findings are added.

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Exploring Natural Language

Cited by 244 publications

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The Spoken BNC2014

The Spoken BNC2014

Light verb semantics in theInternational Corpus of English: onomasiological variation, identity evidence and degrees of lightness

The prosody of question tags in English

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