Corpora: Is corpus phonetics a part of corpus linguistics?

[Alex Chengyu Fang]

By "corpus phonetics", I'd understand it as a study
based on a corpus of "recorded speech", therefore a
rather redundant expression since phonetics is
traditionally much of a field study. You may find
interesting an ICAME article by Haliday which mentions
the pioneering efforts by his teacher Wang Li to
construct a corpus of recorded Cantonese Chinese.

Your own study seems to be one based on derived
indications from authography or transcribed speech
that relate themselves indirectly to phonetic
features. If so, it's certainly part of corpus
linguistics but needs a more self-evident name,
something like "text-based phonetics", which,
admittedly, sounds a bit mutually exclusive.

Alex


 --- Yuri Tambovtsev <yutamb at mail.cis.ru> wrote: >
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 yutamb at hotmail.com Yours sincerely
> Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk Ped.University, Russia
>

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