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.
Cite as: Rischel, J. (1991) Formal linguistics and real speech. Proc. ESCA Workshop on Phonetics and Phonology of Speaking Styles, paper 006
@inproceedings{rischel91_ppst,
author={Jørgen Rischel},
title={{Formal linguistics and real speech}},
year=1991,
booktitle={Proc. ESCA Workshop on Phonetics and Phonology of Speaking Styles},
pages={paper 006}
}