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American English minicorpus

Compilation and annotation

Frederico Amorim Cavalcante
Tommaso Raso
Adriana Couto Ramos

Acknowledgments

The research team for the American English minicorpus would like to thank John Du Bois (University of California, Santa Barbara) for allowing the publication of this sample of the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English.

Detailed description of this resource is found in:

Cavalcante, F. A. & Ramos, A. C. (2016) The American English spontaneous speech minicorpus. Architecture and comparability. CHIMERA: Romance corpora and linguistics, 3(2), pp. 99 – 124.

Details on the Information Units’ annotation are found in:

Cavalcante, F. A. (2016). The topic unit in spontaneous American English: a corpus-based study. MA Dissertation. Belo Horizonte: Federal University of Minas Gerais.
[Available at: http://www.poslin.letras.ufmg.br/defesas/1748M.pdf ]

Cresti, E. (2000). Corpus di italiano parlato: Introduzione (Vol. 1). Accademia della Crusca.

Moneglia, M., & Raso, T. (2014). Notes on Language into Act Theory. In T. Raso & H. Mello (Eds.), Spoken corpora and linguistics studies, pp. 468-489. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

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How to cite:
CAVALCANTE, F., RASO, T., & RAMOS, A. (2018) American English Informationally Tagged Minicorpus.

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For any other uses of this linguistic resource, please contact the C-ORAL-BRASIL Director Prof. Tommaso Raso at: contato@c-oral-brasil.org