TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hoffmann, Sebastian
A1  - Arndt-Lappe, Sabine
T1  - Better data for more researchers – using the audio features of BNCweb
T2  - ICAME Journal
N2  - In spite of the wide agreement among linguists as to the significance of spoken language data, actual speech data have not formed the basis of empirical work on English as much as one would think. The present paper is intended to contribute to changing this situation, on a theoretical and on a practical level. On a theoretical  level,  we  discuss  different  research  traditions  within  (English)  linguistics.  Whereas  speech  data  have  become  increasingly  important  in  various linguistic disciplines, major corpora of English developed within the corpus-linguistic  community,  carefully  sampled  to  be  representative  of  language  usage, are  usually  restricted  to  orthographic  transcriptions  of  spoken  language.  As  a result,  phonological  phenomena  have  remained  conspicuously  understudied within traditional corpus linguistics. At the same time, work with current speech corpora often requires a considerable level of specialist knowledge and tailor-made  solutions.  On  a  practical  level,  we  present  a  new  feature  of  BNCweb (Hoffmann et al. 2008), a user-friendly interface to the British National Corpus, which gives users access to audio and phonemic transcriptions of more than five million words of spontaneous speech. With the help of a pilot study on the variability of intrusive r we illustrate the scope of the new possibilities.
T3  - Trier Center for Language and Communication - 45(1) 
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1946
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:385-1-19462
ER  -