Exploring speaker fluency with phonologically annotated ICE corpora

Ulrike Gut, Robert FUCHS

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Abstract

This study demonstrates how quantitative characteristics of speaker fluency can be measured in the phonologically annotated and time-aligned corpora ICE-Nigeria and ICE-Scotland, which belong to the ‘new generation’ of ICE corpora. Some files from the categories broadcast talk and unscripted speeches in ICE Nigeria and ICE Scotland were phonemically annotated and analysed, and for each speaker the mean length of run (= average number of words per utterance) and articulation rate (= mean number of phonemes per total articulation time) were calculated. These results show how phonological and time-aligned annotations can enrich ICE corpora, and how they allow comparisons of varieties of English that go beyond studies of syntactic and lexical variation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)387-403
Number of pages17
JournalWorld Englishes
Volume36
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2017

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Anthropology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Linguistics and Language

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