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Introduction published In: Segmental, prosodic and fluency features in phonetic learner corpora
Edited by Jürgen Trouvain, Frank Zimmerer, Bernd Möbius, Mária Gósy and Anne Bonneau
[International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 3:2] 2017
► pp. 105–117

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Introduction

Segmental, prosodic and fluency features in phonetic learner corpora

Introduction to the special issue

 | Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
 | Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
 | Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
 | Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
 | LORIA, Nancy, France
Published online: 4 December 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.3.2.01tro
Article outline
  • 1.Phonetic learner corpora as a special type of corpora
  • 2.Analysing phonetic learner corpora
    • 2.1Analysing fluency
    • 2.2Analysing prosody
    • 2.3Analysing vowels and consonants
  • 3.Conclusions and outlook
    • 3.1Data size and diversity of user groups
    • 3.2Phenomena of investigation
    • 3.3Availability
  • Notes
  • References
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