A Dialectal Corpus – a Modern Methodology of Archiving Speech of Rural Regions
A Dialectal Corpus – a Modern Methodology of Archiving Speech of Rural Regions

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the issue of archiving the spoken language of rural residents in the form of an electronic dialectal corpus. The remarks result from working on the creation of the first electronic dialectal corpus in Poland (Korpus Spiski). The methodology used in this study can be applied more widely. The main part of the text focuses on the method of collecting and transcribing dialectal spoken data. The possibilities of using the dialectal corpus for scientific research are also shown. Building a dialectal corpus requires an adaptation of IT tools and the nonstandard spoken data itself. The use of spelling notation allows a wide range of users to use the corpus. Archiving the language of rural residents in the form of a corpus has many advantages, e.g. it documents the current situation of a given dialect and it is a source for various studies.

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