This talk presents the corpus-based approach to the analysis of L2 prosody. After a brief introdu... more This talk presents the corpus-based approach to the analysis of L2 prosody. After a brief introduction to the aims of corpus phonology in general, the individual stages and requirements of the corpus compilation process-data selection and collection, transcription and annotation, data format-will be described and discussed. This will be illustrated by describing the compilation of the LeaP corpus (Gut 2009, 2012), a 12-hour corpus that consists of 341 recordings with 131 learners of English and of German with a total of 32 different first languages as well as 18 recordings with native speakers of both languages. It comprises four different speaking styles, and extensive phonological annotations were carried out with Praat including pitch (initial high, final low, intervening peaks and valleys), intonation (transcribed in modified ToBI), segments, syllables (transcribed in SAMPA), words and phrasing. Subsequently, this talk will show how L2 speech rhythm and L2 pitch range can be analysed by searching the LeaP corpus. Finally, an example will be given of the corpusbased analysis of question intonation produced by Malaysian speakers of English, using a MapTask corpus of Asian Englishes that is currently still under construction. References Gut, U. (2012). The LeaP corpus. A multilingual corpus of spoken learner German and learner English. In Schmidt Thomas & Wörner Kai (eds.), Multilingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus Analysis, pp. 3-23. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Gut, U. (2009). Non-native speech. A corpus-based analysis of phonological and phonetic properties of L2 English and German.
This talk presents the corpus-based approach to the analysis of L2 prosody. After a brief introdu... more This talk presents the corpus-based approach to the analysis of L2 prosody. After a brief introduction to the aims of corpus phonology in general, the individual stages and requirements of the corpus compilation process-data selection and collection, transcription and annotation, data format-will be described and discussed. This will be illustrated by describing the compilation of the LeaP corpus (Gut 2009, 2012), a 12-hour corpus that consists of 341 recordings with 131 learners of English and of German with a total of 32 different first languages as well as 18 recordings with native speakers of both languages. It comprises four different speaking styles, and extensive phonological annotations were carried out with Praat including pitch (initial high, final low, intervening peaks and valleys), intonation (transcribed in modified ToBI), segments, syllables (transcribed in SAMPA), words and phrasing. Subsequently, this talk will show how L2 speech rhythm and L2 pitch range can be analysed by searching the LeaP corpus. Finally, an example will be given of the corpusbased analysis of question intonation produced by Malaysian speakers of English, using a MapTask corpus of Asian Englishes that is currently still under construction. References Gut, U. (2012). The LeaP corpus. A multilingual corpus of spoken learner German and learner English. In Schmidt Thomas & Wörner Kai (eds.), Multilingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus Analysis, pp. 3-23. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Gut, U. (2009). Non-native speech. A corpus-based analysis of phonological and phonetic properties of L2 English and German.
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