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Centering on German self-motion verbs, this paper demonstrates the advantages of free-sorting over creating and delineating word fields with more traditional methods. In particular, I draw a comparison to Snell-Hornby’s (1983) work on German descriptive verbs, which produces lexical fields with the help of dictionary entries, a thesaurus, a small corpus of written text and limited speaker feedback. While these methods have benefits, they are limited in their ability to represent the average organization of semantic fields in the mind of everyday speakers. Freesorting, by contrast, does not rely on academic resources, corpora or singular speaker judgments. In sorting, a group of informants creates visible sets of items according to perceived similarity. Psycholinguists have used the method to quantitatively explore the perception of color terms across cultures (c.f. Roberson et al. 2005). With a sufficiently large number of informants, one can generate lexical sorting data that is apt for cluster analysis, the results of which are represented by dendrograms. The experiment I conducted involved 33 school children from a middle class neighborhood in Braunschweig, Northern Germany. My experiment shows that Snell-Hornby’s (1983) representation of the self-motion field can be improved by integrating further dimensions of meaning, such as body-space relations and sound, that young speakers find salient in the grouping procedure.
Ein «Alpha-Gottesdienst» ist ein Gottesdienst «mit dem etwas anderen Programm», bei dem «Neugierige und Suchende nicht nur Predigt und Gebet, sondern auch Anspiele und Interviews sowie jede Menge Livemusik» erleben können. Die Autoren wollen im vorliegenden Beitrag in Form einer Fallstudie den Beginn eines solchen «Alphagottesdienstes» analysieren, weil er für den Zusammenhang von Interaktionsarchitektur, Sozialtopografie und Interaktionsraum hoch aufschlussreich erscheint. Naturgemäß muss bei einer solchen Analyse auch die Struktur des ausgewählten Falles gebührend zur Sprache kommen, d. h. im vorliegenden Fall die Struktur eines gottesdienstlichen Geschehens, dessen Bedeutung weitgehend vom Kontrast zu einem unterstellten Normalfall von Gottesdienst lebt («nicht nur Predigt und Gebet») und der sich ausdrücklich an ein nicht bereits im Glauben eingerichtetes Publikum routinierter Gottesdienstbesucher, sondern an «Neugierige und Suchende» wendet.
Wie selbstbestimmt können wir das Internet nutzen? Wie viel wissen wir darüber,welche digitalen Spuren wir setzen und wer diesen hinterher spürt?
Wie werden die beim Surfen erzeugten Daten von Dritten weiter verwendet – mit und ohne unser Wissen? Und ist die gefühlte Nacktheit in Zeiten der digital ausspähbaren, scheinbaren Transparenz wirklich akut oder durch traditionelle analoge Denk- und Erfahrungsstrukturen geprägt?
We present an XML-based metadata standard for the documentation of speech and multimedia corpora that was developed at the Institute for German Language (IDS) in Mannheim, Germany. The IDS is one of the major institutions providing German speech and language corpora to researchers. These corpora stem from many different sources and were previously documented in a rather heterogeneous fashion using a variety of data models and formats. In order to unify the documentation for existing and future corpora, the IDS- internal Archive for Spoken German collaborated with several projects and developed a set of standardised XML metadata schemas. These XML schemas build on existing internal and external documentation schemas (such as IMDI) and take into account the workflow of speech corpus production. In order to minimise redundancy, separate schemas were designed for projects, speakers, recording sessions, and entire corpora. The resulting schemas are tested in ongoing speech and multi-media projects at the IDS and are regularly revised. They are accompanied by element definitions, guidelines, and examples. In addition, a mapping to IMDI will be provided.
In this study we investigate the intonational characteristics of the four utterance types statement, wh-question, yes/no-question and declarative question. Readings of two German scripted dialogues were examined to ascertain characteristic features of the F0 contour for each utterance type. Final boundary tone, nuclear pitch accent, F0 offset, F0 onset, F0 range, and the slopes of a topline and a bottomline were determined for each utterance and compared for the four utterance types. Results show that for an average speaker, the final boundary tone, the F0 range, and the slope of the topline can be used to distinguish between the four utterance types. However, speakers may deviate from this pattern and exploit other intonational means to distinguish certain utterance types or choose not to mark a syntactic difference at all.