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Title Corpus-based studies of lesser-described languages : the CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages / edited by Amina Mettouchi, Martine Vanhove, Dominique Caubet, LLCAN, Paris
Published Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]

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Series Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 1388-0373 ; v. 68
Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 68
Contents Preface / Amina Mettouchi, Martine Vanhove and Dominique Caubet -- Part 1. Phonetics, phonology and prosody -- Representation of speech in CorpAfroAs : transcriptional strategies and prosodic units / Shlomo Izre'el and Amina Mettouchi -- Tone and intonation / Bernard Caron -- Part 2. Interfacing prosody, information structure and syntax -- The intonation of topic and focus : Zaar (Nigeria), Tamasheq (Niger), Juba Arabic (South Sudan) and Tripoli Arabic (Libya) / Bernard Caron, Cécile Lux, Stefano Manfredi and Christophe Pereira -- Quotative constructions and prosody in some Afroasiatic languages : towards a typology / Il-Il Yatziv-Malibert and Martine Vanhove -- Part 3. Cross-linguistic comparability -- Glossing in Semitic languages : a comparison of Moroccan Arabic and Modern Hebrew / Angeles Vicente, Il-Il Yatziv-Malibert and Alexandrine Barontini -- From the Leipzig Glossing Rules to the GE and RX lines / Bernard Comrie -- Cross-linguistic comparability in CorpAfroAs / Amina Mettouchi, Graziano Savà and Mauro Tosco -- Functional domains and cross-linguistic comparability / Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Amina Mettouchi -- Part 4: Language contact -- Language contact, borrowing and codeswitching / Stefano Manfredi, Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle and Mauro To
Summary For a long time, Toolbox has been the most used software dedicated to text annotation in the community of field linguists, especially for African linguistics. However, its limitations, and the growing need to pair text and sound, have made it important to find another solution to text annotation. This paper, aimed at a readership of information technology specialists, is a presentation of the software development conducted within the CorpAfroAs project on the basis of the software ELAN, developed by the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen. This development, whose result is the ELAN-CorpA software
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Afroasiatic languages -- Grammar, Comparative
Afroasiatic languages -- Grammar -- Data processing
Afroasiatic languages -- Syntax -- Data processing
Afroasiatic languages -- Morphology -- Data processing
Corpora (Linguistics) -- Data processing
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Arabic.
Form Electronic book
Author Mettouchi, Amina, editor.
Vanhove, Martine, editor.
Caubet, Dominique, editor.
LC no. 2014047717
ISBN 9789027268891
9027268894