Prosodic segmentation and cross-linguistic comparison in CorpAfroAs and CorTypo: Corpus-driven and corpus-based approaches

• Published in: Language documentation and conservation no. 25; pp. 59 - 113
• Main Authors: Mettouchi, Amina, Vanhove, Martine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Hawaiʻi Press 2022
• Series: Conservation Special Publication 25. Doing corpus-based typology with spoken language data: State of the art. Geoffrey Haig, Stefan Schnell, and Frank Seifart (eds.)
• Subjects: Humanities and Social Sciences; Linguistics; corpus; prosody; AfroAsiatic; morphosyntax; information structure; reported speech

The paper addresses the issue of corpus-design in relation to research questions, for under-described languages. It shows how a corpus emerges from the methodology and habitus of its contributors, and how it is shaped by the technical tools used for data organization. It also underlines the ways in...