Dissertation help.
M.Chamberlain (elu091@bangor.ac.uk)
Thu, 2 Nov 1995 21:23:30 +0000 (GMT)
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am currently starting work on a BA Hons linguistics dissertation
and have been guided toward the internet and Email (new concepts for me)
in my search for help in data collection. I intend to perform a study of
misunderstandings in spontaneous speech (preferably between
two speakers). However I am having extreme difficulty obtaining relevant
data. As collecting it first hand would be practically impossible for one
person like myself, I need a corpus.
This though has been very difficult to find even on the internet
(possibly through my own lack of computing experience) until I discovered
the Email address of Michael Popham (Oxford University computing centre).
He gave me your address and said that you could possibly help me out with
a suitable corpus.
If you have access to, or know of the existance of, a transcription
of spontaneous informal speech which contains plenty evidence of
misunderstandings between the two interlocuters, I would be hugely
grateful if you could contact me.
I thank you sincerely for your time,
MATT CHAMBERLAIN.