Exploring speaker fluency with phonologically annotated ICE corpora

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ID2293773
AuthorsUlrike Gut (0000-0002-8395-4357, University of Münster Department of English Johannisstr. 12‐20 48143 Münster Germany, corresponding author), Robert Fuchs (0000-0001-7694-062X, University of Münster Department of English Johannisstr. 12‐20 48143 Münster Germany, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume36
Issue3
Pages387-403
Publication date2017-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueWorld Englishes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0883-2919 • E-ISSN: 1467-971X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/weng.12278
OpenAlexW2765414385
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited40

This study demonstrates how quantitative characteristics of speaker fluency can be measured in the phonologically annotated and time-aligned corpora ICE-Nigeria and ICE-Scotland, which belong to the 'new generation' of ICE corpora. Some files from the categories broadcast talk and unscripted speeches in ICE Nigeria and ICE Scotland were phonemically annotated and analysed, and for each speaker the mean length of run ( = average number of words per utterance) and articulation rate ( = mean number of phonemes per total articulation time) were calculated. These results show how phonological and time-aligned annotations can enrich ICE corpora, and how they allow comparisons of varieties of English that go beyond studies of syntactic and lexical variation

Articulation (sociology · Corpus linguistics · Fluency · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Speech recognition · Stress (linguistics · Utterance · Variation (astronomy · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Phonetics and Phonology Research

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