North Yorkshire Dialect Corpus based on Oral History Recordings

基于口述历史记录的北约克郡方言语料库

• 批准号: 22K00622
• 负责人: Laker Stephen
• 金额: $ 1.83万
• 依托单位: Kyushu University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2026-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-22K00622/
• 关键词: English dialects; Recorded speech; Corpus

This year I made one research trip to England. During this time, I visited Teesside Archives, in Middlesbrough, the Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum, Skinningrove, the Civic Archives in York, as well as other local collections held at reference libraries at Guisborough and Redcar, and Middlesbrough. I worked most closely with Teesside Archives in Middlesbrough, which houses a large oral history collection, though much of it is not yet digitised. Importantly, the archivists sourced and allowed me to have copies of transcripts of 45 recordings and other data necessary for the first year of the project. As planned, I focussed on the recordings of the County Endeavour Oral History Projects from 1986. Even though I gathered typed transcriptions to work with, the print quality was not great, so OCR did not work especially well and manual improvements were needed, which was time-consuming. A sufficient number (about 20 one-hour recordings) of the recordings are now prepared, which is already a considerable amount of data that can be searched using corpus tools. I have already had initial contacts with the archivists at the Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum in 2022 and gained access to recordings, but the surviving written documentation was not accessible until recently due to renovations of the museum. I have collected sufficient data to begin preliminary studies of selected dialectal features. Groundwork has been made on a study involving infinitival constructions, characteristic of the Yorkshire area. I will aim to write this up in fiscal year 2023.

今年我去英国进行了一次考察旅行。在此期间，我参观了米德尔斯堡的蒂赛德档案馆、斯金宁格罗夫的克利夫兰铁矿博物馆、约克的公民档案馆，以及吉斯伯勒、雷德卡和米德尔斯堡的参考图书馆保存的其他当地藏品。我与米德尔斯堡的蒂赛德档案馆合作最密切，该档案馆收藏了大量口述历史藏品，尽管其中大部分尚未数字化。重要的是，档案保管员为我提供了 45 段录音的抄本以及项目第一年所需的其他数据，并允许我获得这些副本。按照计划，我重点关注了 1986 年县奋进口述历史项目的录音。尽管我收集了打印的转录文本进行处理，但打印质量不佳，因此 OCR 效果不是特别好，需要手动改进，这非常耗时。现在已经准备了足够数量（大约20个一小时的录音）的录音，这已经是相当大的数据量了，可以使用语料库工具进行搜索。 2022 年，我已经与克利夫兰铁矿石博物馆的档案管理员进行了初步接触，并获得了录音，但由于博物馆翻修，幸存的书面文档直到最近才得以获取。我已经收集了足够的数据来开始对选定的方言特征进行初步研究。一项涉及约克郡地区特征的无限结构的研究已经奠定了基础。我的目标是在 2023 财年写下这篇文章。