2 Spoken language resources

Written language:

Often seen as the standard

Central to social, economic, political organisation

Note the commercial success of DUDEN

Spoken language:

Determines language variation

Spontaneous, less committal

Epistemologically prior

Resources:

1. Goals
2. Signal data
3. Transcribed and annotated data
4. Lexica
5. Grammars, stochastic language models
6. Corpus management: database technology
7. Standards and resources