Phonetics and Phonology of Speaking Styles: Reduction and Elaboration in Speech Communication Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain September 30 - October 2, 1991

Formal Linguistics and Real Speech

Jørgen Rischel

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

This paper discusses the nature of the data that form the input to linguistic descriptions, particularly with regard to the greater or lesser artificiality of such data. The paper argues in favour of a much stronger emphasis in linguistic work on natural speech data even including spontaneous speech. A major part of the paper is devoted to a general discussion of some preliminaries to the study of linguistic variation in natural speech.

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Bibliographic reference.  Rischel, Jørgen (1991): "Formal linguistics and real speech", In PPoSpSt-1991, paper 006.