Construction and Automatization of a Minnan Child Speech Corpus with some Research Findings

Jane S. Tsay

《中文計算語言學期刊》 12卷4期 (2007/12) Pp. 411-441

https://doi.org/10.30019/IJCLCLP.200712.0004

並列摘要

Taiwanese Child Language Corpus (TAICORP) is a corpus based on spontaneous conversations between young children and their adult caretakers in Minnan (Taiwan Southern Min) speaking families in Chiayi County, Taiwan. This corpus is special in several ways: (1) It is a Minnan corpus; (2) It is a speech-based corpus; (3) It is a corpus of a language that does not yet have a conventionalized orthography; (4) It is a collection of longitudinal child language data; (5) It is one of the largest child corpora in the world with about two million syllables in 497,426 lines (utterances) based on about 330 hours of recordings. Regarding the format, TAICORP adopted the Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) [MacWhinney and Snow 1985; MacWhinney 1995] for transcribing and coding the recordings into machine-readable text. The goals of this paper are to introduce the construction of this speech-based corpus and at the same time to discuss some problems and challenges encountered. The development of an automatic word segmentation program with a spell-checker is also discussed. Finally, some findings in syllable distribution are reported.

並列關鍵字

Minnan ； Taiwan Southern Min ； Taiwanese ； Speech Corpus ； Child Language ； CHILDES ； Automatic Word Segmentation

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