Thorsten Brato
List of John Benjamins publications in which Thorsten Brato is involved.
Articles
2021 Extending automatic vowel formant extraction to New Englishes: A comparison of different methods English World-Wide 42:1, pp. 54–84 | Article
While different automated procedures for vowel formant prediction have recently been proposed, it is unclear how reliably these methods perform in the phonetic study of vowels in New Englishes and how such approaches could be applied to specific varieties. This paper compares different automatic… read more
2019 Chapter 1.5. The historical corpus of English in Ghana (HiCE Ghana): Motivation, compilation, opportunities Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes, Esimaje, Alexandra U., Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia (eds.), pp. 119–142 | Chapter
This chapter discusses various aspects relevant to the compilation of the Historical Corpus of English in Ghana (HiCE Ghana), a 600,000-word corpus of written Ghanaian English (GhE) from the period 1966 to 1975. The corpus captures written GhE in the early years of its nativization phase and by… read more
2019 Chapter 2.4. Lexical expansion in Ghanaian English from a diachronic perspective: A structural and semantic analysis Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes, Esimaje, Alexandra U., Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia (eds.), pp. 259–292 | Chapter
This chapter provides a real-time structural and semantic analysis of lexical expansion in the Nativization phase of Ghanaian English based on the Historical Corpus of English in Ghana (HiCE Ghana) and the written-printed sections of the Ghanaian component of ICE. Taking a comprehensive list of… read more