Using Corpora of Recorded Speech for Historical Phonology

Warren Maguire

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199232819.013.035

Using Corpora of Recorded Speech for Historical Phonology

Warren Maguire

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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This chapter examines the use of electronic corpora of recorded speech in historical phonological analysis. On the one hand, corpora of this kind provide us with unique insights into the synchronic phonologies of varieties, allowing us to analyse change in real and apparent time in ways which have never been possible before. On the other hand, the fact that these corpora typically provide us with fragmentary, production-only data which are rarely strictly comparable with each other means that there are considerable limitations on our phonological interpretation of them.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology
Editors	Patrick Honeybone, Joseph Salmons
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	164-172
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	978-0199232819
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199232819.013.035
Publication status	Published - Aug 2014

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electronic corpora
synchronic phonology
production
strict comparability
fragmentary data

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FITS: From Inglis to Scots (FITS): Mapping sounds to spellings
Los, B., Alcorn, R., Karaiskos, V., Maguire, W., Kopaczyk, J., Molineaux Ress, B. & Smith, D.
AHRC
31/03/14 → 30/03/18
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The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology
Honeybone, P. (ed.) & Salmons, J. (ed.), 2015, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 816 p.
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The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology

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