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A Corpus-Driven Study of Discourse Intonation

The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (Prosodic)

A Corpus-Driven Study of Discourse Intonation( )
Author: Cheng, Winnie
Greaves, Chris
Warren, Martin
Series title:Studies in Corpus Linguistics Ser.
ISBN:978-90-272-2306-7
Publication Date:Dec 2008
Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $158.00
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The book is the first to apply David Brazil's Discourse Intonation systems (prominence, tone, key and termination) to the study of a corpus of authentic, naturally-occurring spoken discourses. The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (prosodic) is made up of approximately one million words consisting of four sub-corpora of equal size, namely academic, conversation, business and public. The participants are all adults and typically have either Cantonese or English as their first language....
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