Learner corpora and prosody: From the COREIL corpus to principles on data collection and corpus design

• Authors: Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie , Hi-Yon Yoo
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Studies in L2 intonation and phrasal phonology are interesting not only to understand how second languages (L2) are acquired, but also to get better insights into the phonology of the target language itself. Indeed, clear descriptions are still missing for many intonational and phrasal phenomena; and analysing the speech production of L2 learners may help in analyzing phenomena that have remained unnoticed up to now (e.g. grammatical and prosodic constraints that operate in case of self-repairs, and phonological status of some prosodic events). We propose a close look at a well-designed corpus, as an introduction to this research perspective. The aim of the present contribution is twofold: (i) to present the COREIL corpus, an electronic oral learner corpus that has been designed to study the acquisition of phrasal phonology and intonation in French and English as a foreign language; (ii) to explain the principles used to collect and annotate the data. The data collection protocol is developed to be as modular as possible: for instance, it can be used to gather data produced by children as well as by adults. The protocol is intended as an easy-to-use tool that can be modified by the research community. It allows for a comparison of acquisition processes along several dimensions (L1 vs. L2, differences among L1 learners, etc).

Keywords

EN

language resources; prosody; corpus annotation; L2 acquisition

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Journal: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 47
• Pages: 26

Dates

published

2011

received

2010-09-30

revised

2010-11-24

accepted

2010-11-25

online

2011-03-31

Contributors

author

Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie

• CNRS – UMR 7110/Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle – Université Paris-Diderot, France

author

Hi-Yon Yoo

• Université Paris-Diderot – UMR 7110/ Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, France

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/psicl-2011-0004