[Corpora-List] Ethical review of spoken corpus collection

[John Du Bois]

Regarding corpora of spoken language, one approach is to adopt a 
PUBLICATION model. From the beginning you tell people that the 
transcriptions and audio will be published. (This is what we did with 
the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English, published by the 
Linguistics Data Consortium 
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2000S85; 
see also http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/research/sbcorpus.html.) Once 
it is published, it is simply out there on CD's etc. in libraries etc., 
and can be used for eternity like any other published document you 
encounter in the library. Obviously this requires appropriate consent 
from the beginning, but it is worth going to the trouble to get it.

John Du Bois
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara


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