This paper presents an ongoing project devoted to building an electronic corpus of the dialect spoken by the Bunjevci community, in the northern Serbian region of Bačka. The material discussed was collected between 2009 and 2012 in the city of Subotica and it surroundings; it amounts to approximately 60 hours of recordings and an estimated 743,500 words. We elaborate on how three sample recordings were transformed in (pilot) corpus format, discussing the choice of linguistic and metalinguistic variables coded, and describing the normalization strategies adopted in order to enable the use of automatic corpus processing tools, as well as different types of queries. Lastly, examples are provided of how the corpus can be employed for educational puroposes.
Creation and some ideas for classroom use of an electronic corpus of the dialect of Bunjevci
Maja Miličević
2017
Abstract
This paper presents an ongoing project devoted to building an electronic corpus of the dialect spoken by the Bunjevci community, in the northern Serbian region of Bačka. The material discussed was collected between 2009 and 2012 in the city of Subotica and it surroundings; it amounts to approximately 60 hours of recordings and an estimated 743,500 words. We elaborate on how three sample recordings were transformed in (pilot) corpus format, discussing the choice of linguistic and metalinguistic variables coded, and describing the normalization strategies adopted in order to enable the use of automatic corpus processing tools, as well as different types of queries. Lastly, examples are provided of how the corpus can be employed for educational puroposes.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
