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Exploring speaker fluency with phonologically annotated ICE corpora
Author(s) -
GUT ULRIKE,
FUCHS ROBERT
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.12278
Subject(s) - fluency , articulation (sociology) , linguistics , utterance , variation (astronomy) , stress (linguistics) , computer science , speech recognition , philosophy , physics , politics , political science , astrophysics , law
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.