Methods of corpus linguistics

Teacher(s)

de Marneffe Marie-Catherine (compensates Simon Anne-Catherine); Fairon Cédrick; Simon Anne-Catherine;

Language

French

Prerequisites

LFIAL1530 Introduction to Language Science or another course of introduction to linguistics

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	Build a corpus of language data (oral or written) for a particular purpose of linguistic research;
2	Handle several computer softwares specialized in corpus analysis;
3	Make a quantitative study on a corpus;
4	Make a qualitative study on a corpus.

Content

GENERAL OBJECTIVES :
(1) To be able to lead, completely and autonomously, a linguistic study on corpora;
(2) To acquire a general knowledge on linguistic corpora (in French, but not only), tools and methods.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES :
(1) To design a corpus answering a specific research question;
(2) To collect oral and/or written data + metadata;
(3) To "edit" the data (transcription, cleaning, formatting, encoding, etc.);
(4) To tag the data (at several levels of linguistic analysis) using adequate software;
(5) To formulate research questions / hypotheses;
(6) To choose a methodology of analysis;
(7) To exploit / analyze a corpus according to a chosen methology (qualitative and/or quantitative);
(8) To present the results obtained.

Teaching methods

30 hours of lectures + 10 hours of practical work (dedicated to the realization of a personal research based on the methodology see in the lectures).

Evaluation methods

• Attendance and participation to lectures mandatory since lectures are hands-on (10%)
• Submission of a short homework in Praat and R consisting of recording, annotation and vizualization (at mid-term) (15%)
• Oral presentation on the last day of the course (25%)
• Essay of 13 pages max. (with bibliography, but without appendices) to be submitted at the start of the exam session in January (50%)

Online resources

Moodle: https://moodle.uclouvain.be/course/view.php?id=2629

Bibliography

• Avanzi, Mathieu, Béguelin, Marie-José, Diémoz, Federica (éds) (2016) Corpus de français parlé et français parlé des corpus (=Corpus 15).
• Baude, Olivier (sous la dir. de). (2006). Corpus oraux, guide des bonnes pratiques. Paris : éditions du CNRS.
• Zufferey, Sandrine (2020). Introduction à la linguistique de corpus. Londres : ISTE éditions

Teaching materials

• L'ensemble des supports sont disponibles sur Moodle.

Faculty or entity

ELAL