Spoken English data base

Wed Oct 12 20:24:03 UTC 2011

Dear Dan,

I can also recommend the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English
(MiCASE), where you can separate the native speakers of American
English (they also have categories "non-native" "near-native" and
"native speaker, other English"): http://micase.elicorpora.info/

Best,
Sophia

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> From: Keith Johnson <keithjohnson at berkeley.edu>
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> The Buckeye Corpus (40 hours of phonetically transcribed speech - Ohio natives engaged in conversations) may also be of interest.
>
> buckeyecorpus.osu.edu
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> On Oct 10, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Daniel Everett wrote:
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>> Folks,
>>
>> I am wondering if there is a data base of spoken English (in particular American English, but any dialect would be interesting to know about). What I have in mind is something along the lines of the Brazilian Portuguese Projeto Nurc (one site for that is here: http://www.letras.ufrj.br/nurc-rj/).
>>
>> Could anyone point me to such a data base of spoken (adult) English?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Dan Everett
>
>
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> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:41:04 -0400
> From: Daniel Everett <dan at daneverett.org>
> Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] Spoken English data base
> To: Keith Johnson <keithjohnson at berkeley.edu>
> Cc: Funknet <funknet at mailman.rice.edu>
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> Thanks, Keith.
>
> Do Ohio natives speak English, though?
>
> I guess so.
>
>
> Dan
>
>
>
> On Oct 11, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Keith Johnson wrote:
>
>> The Buckeye Corpus (40 hours of phonetically transcribed speech - Ohio natives engaged in conversations) may also be of interest.
>>
>> buckeyecorpus.osu.edu
>>
>>
>> On Oct 10, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Daniel Everett wrote:
>>
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> I am wondering if there is a data base of spoken English (in particular American English, but any dialect would be interesting to know about). What I have in mind is something along the lines of the Brazilian Portuguese Projeto Nurc (one site for that is here: http://www.letras.ufrj.br/nurc-rj/).
>>>
>>> Could anyone point me to such a data base of spoken (adult) English?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Dan Everett
>>
>>
>
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> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:33:40 -0700
> From: Hongyin Tao <bbs.lists at gmail.com>
> Subject: [FUNKNET] The Second International Symposium on Chinese
>        Language        and Discourse
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> The Second International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse
>
> ??????????????? / ???????????????
>
> Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
> June 9-11, 2012
>
>
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> http://portal.cohass.ntu.edu.sg/ChineseLanguageAndDiscourse/
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> The International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse is a
> biennial symposium that advances the exchange of scholarship in
> discourse functional studies of the Chinese language, emphasizing an
> empirical orientation and encompassing such fields as language and
> society, language and culture, language and social interaction,
> discourse and grammar, communication studies, and contact linguistics.
>
> In 2012, the symposium will be held at Nanyang Technological
> University in Singapore.
>
> 2012 Symposium Theme: New approaches to the study of Chinese grammar
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> Keynote speakers
> Tao Hongyin, University of California, Los Angeles
> Hilary Chappell, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Ecole
> des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
> Biq Yung-o, National Taiwan Normal University
> Randy LaPolla, La Trobe University
> Chew Cheng Hai, Nanyang Technological University
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> ______________________________
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> Co-Editor, Chinese Language and Discourse: An International &
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> Technological University
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> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:46:33 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Frederick J Newmeyer <fjn at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: [FUNKNET] long-distance anaphors in English?
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> Hello,
>
> My intuitions tell me that the following sentence would never occur in English discourse, unless the final reflexive is stressed:
>
> *   Mary hopes that John will nominate herself.
> OK  Mary hopes that John will nominate HERSELF.
>
> Does anybody know of any corpus-based studies that would uphold (or refute) my intuitions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --fritz
>
>
> Frederick J. Newmeyer
> Chercheur, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon
> Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
> Adjunct Professor, U of British Columbia and Simon Fraser U
>
>
>
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> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:12:08 +0100
> From: Tom Bartlett <BartlettT at cardiff.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] long-distance anaphors in English?
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> Hi Fritz,
>
> This seems to be a case of the "reflexive" used for the speaker (or projected thinker) as in "This is work that has been undertaken by myself" (frowned upon by prescriptivists!).  As such it would take the stress in your example as it is the New information; but it would also sound okay to me undstressed as part of  a list, with the last element of the list stressed as the culmination of the New:
>
> Mary hopes that John will nominate herself, her brother and the man next DOOR.
>
> Don't know if this is relevant.
>
> All the best,
>
> Tom.
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> Date: 12/10/2011 10:46
> Subject: [FUNKNET] long-distance anaphors in English?
>
> Hello,
>
> My intuitions tell me that the following sentence would never occur in English discourse, unless the final reflexive is stressed:
>
> *   Mary hopes that John will nominate herself.
> OK  Mary hopes that John will nominate HERSELF.
>
> Does anybody know of any corpus-based studies that would uphold (or refute) my intuitions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --fritz
>
>
> Frederick J. Newmeyer
> Chercheur, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon
> Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
> Adjunct Professor, U of British Columbia and Simon Fraser U
>
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>        Language        and Discourse
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> (Apologies for cross postings and duplication)
>
> The Second International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse
>
> ??????????????? / ???????????????
>
> Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
> June 9-11, 2012
>
>
>
> http://portal.cohass.ntu.edu.sg/ChineseLanguageAndDiscourse/
>
> The International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse is a
> biennial symposium that advances the exchange of scholarship in
> discourse functional studies of the Chinese language, emphasizing an
> empirical orientation and encompassing such fields as language and
> society, language and culture, language and social interaction,
> discourse and grammar, communication studies, and contact linguistics.
>
> In 2012, the symposium will be held at Nanyang Technological
> University in Singapore.
>
> 2012 Symposium Theme: New approaches to the study of Chinese grammar
>
> Keynote speakers
> Tao Hongyin, University of California, Los Angeles
> Hilary Chappell, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Ecole
> des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
> Biq Yung-o, National Taiwan Normal University
> Randy LaPolla, La Trobe University
> Chew Cheng Hai, Nanyang Technological University
>
> _____________________________________________________________
> Organizer: Luke Kang Kwong, Nanyang Technological University
> Co-Editor, Chinese Language and Discourse: An International &
> Interdisciplinary Journal and Studies in Chinese Language and
> Discourse Book Series
>
> Sponsor: Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Nanyang
> Technological University
>
>
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