Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora Volume 1 Synchronic Databases [Paperback]

A range of electronic corpora is increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This development coincided with improved standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. This book looks at developing similar standards for enriching and preserving unconventional data: dialects, child language and bilingual databases.Notes on Contributors Foreword: S.Poplack Taming Digital Voices and Texts: Models and Methods for Handling Unconventional Synchronic Corpora; J.C.Beal, K.P.Corrigan & H.L.Moisl SCOTS: Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech; J.Anderson, D.Beavan & C.Kay FRED - The Freiburg English Dialect Corpus; L.Anderwald & S.Wagner The Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects (SAND): A Corpus of Elicited Speech as an On-line Dynamic Atlas; S.Barbiers, L.Cornips & J-P.Kunst Coding and Analyzing Multilingual Data: The LIDES Project; P.Gardner-Chloros, M.G.Moyer & M.Sebba ICE-Ireland: Local Variations on Global Standards; J.Kallen & J.Kirk The Talkbank Project; B.MacWhinney Developing and Using a Corpus of Written Creole; M.Sebba & S.Dray Representing Real Language: Consistency, trade-offs and thinking ahead!; S.A.Tagliamonte Index

'A unique collection of essays on corpus projects that are fundamentally different from the wide range of general reference corpora of standard English(es)' - Joybrato Mukherjee, English World-Wide

JEAN ANDERSON is the Resource Development Officer for the School of English and Scottish Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow, UKLIESELOTTE ANDERWALD is Assistant Professor of English Linguistics at Freiburg University, GermanySJEF BARBIERS is Special Researcher at the Meertens Institute, Amsterdam and Professor of Variationist Linguistics at Utrecht University, The NetherlandsDAVE BEAVAN is Computing Manager for the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech at the University of Glasgow, UKLEONIE CORNIPS is Senior Researcher of Syntax and Sociolinguistics and Head of Departmentlӻ