iatefl_pronsig : Message: Re: [iatefl_pronsig] Hello from Dublin Institute of Technology!

Hello Dermott

Sounds really interesting. There must be a huge number of hours involved! Rcently I wanted to explain about corpora to my own adult ESOL students - just an outline of what they are etc.But actually I don't know that much myself. I've come through psycholinguistics (not Linguistics) so missed on that learning.

Now I want to use spoken English corpus for my own research - but I have to find out which corpora are available for use ( I happen NOT to want the specifically New Zealand English one which is local of course) because I'd prefer recent material. I want, if poss, to search a spoken corpus for particular phrases to find out frequency.

Anyway cheers for your project - the IATEFL people will be lucky to hear about it. Me too - I'll be waiting for more .... :-)

Sue Sullivan

Christchurch

New Zealand

--- On Wed, 12/11/08, dermotfcampbell <dermotfcampbell@...> wrote:

From: dermotfcampbell <dermotfcampbell@...>
Subject: [iatefl_pronsig] Hello from Dublin Institute of Technology!
To: iatefl_pronsig@...
Received: Wednesday, 12 November, 2008, 4:33 AM

Alex Selman invited me to join the PronSIG group - so here we are!

We have submitted a proposal to IATEFL 2009 outlining the Dynamic Speech Corpus we are
currently developing (still early stages!) at DIT. Alex seems to like the idea ... so it can't be
going too far in the wrong direction!?!

The project is a commercially sensitive one (funder: Enterprise Ireland), but I'm willing to
outline its main aims and would welcome feedback from anyone interested in corpora aimed
primarily at learners - though certainly not excluding authors and researchers!

We should know by the end of the month whether our proposal was accepted by the IATEFL
selection committee and then I would be in a position to post the abstract for general
comments.

In the interim - a big hello from Dublin!

DFC

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Alex Selman invited me to join the PronSIG group - so here we are! We have submitted a proposal to IATEFL 2009 outlining the Dynamic Speech Corpus we are ...

dermotfcampbell

Nov 11, 2008
3:33 pm

Kudos to ya boys, good luck on the proposal. My name is Chris P. Madden (yes, that an Irish last name; great grandfather left in 1890 for Toronto Canada...)...

japaneasynow

Nov 12, 2008
11:57 am

Dear Chris (Madden!), Â Your e-mail? Â Jose Tiziani Argentina ... From: japaneasynow <japaneasynow@...> Subject: [iatefl_pronsig] Re: Hello from Dublin...

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jmtiziani

Nov 12, 2008
2:47 pm

Sure Jose, you can reply directly to my email, which is japaneasynow@... I am new to this group too, and dont quite know the in's and out's... Cheers, c....

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Nov 12, 2008
10:39 pm

Hello Dermott Â Sounds reallyÂ interesting. There must be a huge number of hours involved! Rcently I wanted to explainÂ about corpora to my own adult ESOL...

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Nov 13, 2008
7:35 pm

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