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Developments in the spoken component of ICE corpora
Author(s) -
KIRK JOHN M.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
world englishes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.6
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-971X
pISSN - 0883-2919
DOI - 10.1111/weng.12277
Subject(s) - transcription (linguistics) , computer science , component (thermodynamics) , annotation , linguistics , spoken language , natural language processing , phonetic transcription , representation (politics) , corpus linguistics , architecture , orthographic projection , artificial intelligence , history , philosophy , physics , archaeology , politics , political science , law , thermodynamics
ABSTRACT This article considers the evolution of spoken components within the International Corpus of English. It begins with the classic orthographic transcription which has long been taken as a written means for representing what was said. Following a critique, the article suggests ways in which the representation of the spoken language in corpora could be better achieved: through the availability of recordings, through the alignment of recordings with the transcription, and through more annotation, especially of prosodic and pragmatic types, as in the SPICE‐Ireland Corpus. It ends with a discussion of the usefulness of a multi‐layer architecture approach to corpus compilation and exploitability.