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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear colleagues, recently there was a discussion
what the corpus linguistics is. Some scholars wanted to write a deskbook on
corpus linguistics. I noticed that many linguists understand it in a narrow
way: just as corpus lexicology, rather than corpus linguistics. I propose to
consider corpus phonetics as a part of corpus linguistics. By corpus phonetics I
understand the part of corpus linguistics which
studies phonetical features that become transparent when the text in
some language is long enough. I have computed many long texts in
different languages. It allowed me to obtain some interesting typological
results on the one hand and corpus results on the other hand. If the text is not
long enough, one can't obtain corpus phonetics results. I'd like the colleagues
in the field of corpus linguistics to share their ideas if one should include
corpus phonetics in corpus linguistics or if corpus linguistics should include
only corpus lexicology and corpus syntax? If not, how should long transcription
texts be called? Why not corpus phonetics? Looking forward to your answers to my
email address <A href="mailto:yutamb@hotmail.com">yutamb@hotmail.com</A> Yours
sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk Ped.University,
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