Abstract
The idea of this special issue onSpoken language in time and across timeemerged at an international symposium on this topic that we organised at Lund University on 20 September 2019. The purpose of the symposium was to celebrate important past and present achievements of spoken language research as well as past and present corpora available for such research. Some speakers reported on academic and technical advances from the past, while others offered information about state-of-the-art research on spoken language and spoken corpus compilation. Our idea with the symposium was also to bring together early career scholars, somewhat more senior scholars as well as senior scholars – the latter actually active when interest in spoken language and spoken corpus compilation was in its infancy. The type of spoken corpora in focus extended from the world's first publicly available, machine-readable spoken corpus,The London–Lund Corpus of Spoken English(Svartvik 1990), nowadays referred to as LLC–1, through to the spoken parts ofThe British National Corpora(BNC) from 1994 (BNC Consortium 2007) and 2014 (Loveet al.2017),The Diachronic Corpus of Present-Day Spoken English(DCPSE) consisting of LLC–1 and the British component ofThe International Corpus of English(ICE–GB),Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English(SBCSAE) (Du Boiset al.2000–5),The Corpus of Contemporary American English(COCA) (Davies 2008–) and finally the most recent one,The London–Lund Corpus 2(LLC–2) (Põldvere, Johansson & Paradis 2021a). The symposium thus covered approximately half a century of data from publicly available corpora compiled for multipurpose use by the academic community for research on spoken English in different contexts.
Highlights
The idea of this special issue on Spoken language in time and across time emerged at an international symposium on this topic that we organised at Lund University on 20 September 2019.1 The purpose of the symposium was to celebrate important past and present achievements of spoken language research as well as past and present corpora available for such research
We foresee research on phenomena that are either specific to speech or at least more salient for one and all in spoken communication than in written production such as timing in speech, fillers, pauses, turn-taking, overlaps, laughter, mumbling, slips of the tongue and the ear, and interlocutor uptake. This special issue contains original research on spoken English by some of the participants at the symposium and their various collaborators, and the articles explore some of the above-mentioned topics using multipurpose corpora
The articles included in this special issue all relate to spoken language in time and across time in one way or another
Summary
The idea of this special issue on Spoken language in time and across time emerged at an international symposium on this topic that we organised at Lund University on 20 September 2019.1 The purpose of the symposium was to celebrate important past and present achievements of spoken language research as well as past and present corpora available for such research. We foresee research on phenomena that are either specific to speech or at least more salient for one and all in spoken communication than in written production such as timing in speech, fillers, pauses, turn-taking, overlaps, laughter, mumbling, slips of the tongue and the ear, and interlocutor uptake. This special issue contains original research on spoken English by some of the participants at the symposium and their various collaborators, and the articles explore some of the above-mentioned topics using multipurpose corpora
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