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Sonification of register: Towards a new method for exploratory corpus analyses

By Roman Pfeifer (Folkwang Univ.) & Aria Adli (Univ. of Cologne)

If you are interested in more sonification sounds you can find a previous version here or you can find another sonification project realized by students of music composition and linguistics here.

 

Paper presented at the Corpus Linguistics 2021 conference on July 13, 2021.

1 Sentence-based sonification

1 sentence corresponds to 1 bar/measure of 1 second length.

1.1 Text genre: academic

1.2 Text genre: conversation

1.3 Text genre: interview

1.4 Text genre: news

1.5 Text genre: fiction

1.6 Text genre: biography

2 Document-based sonification

1 document corresponds to 1 bar/measure of 4.5 seconds length.
All documents belonging to a text genre in the GUM corpus are sonificated.

2.1 Text genre: academic

2.5 Text genre: fiction

2.9 Text genre: vlog

2.2 Text genre: conversation

2.6 Text genre: biography

2.10 Text genre: voyage

2.3 Text genre: interview

2.7 Text genre: speech

2.11 Text genre: whow

2.4 Text genre: news

2.8 Text genre: textbook


3 Decomposed sonificated linguistic features/sounds


3.1 Selection of linguistic features on Biber’s (1988: 89) factor 1

3.1.1 Private verbs

3.1.10 Causative subordination

3.1.19 Place adverbs

3.1.2 Contractions

3.1.11 Nouns

3.1.20 Time adverbs

3.1.3 Present tense verbs

3.1.12 Word length

3.1.21 Conditional

3.1.4 2nd person pronouns

3.1.13 Token pls

3.1.22 Infinitives

3.1.5 Analytic negation

3.1.14 Interjection clap

3.1.23 Necessity

3.1.6 Demonstrative pronouns

3.1.15 3rd person pronouns

3.1.24 Prediction

3.1.7 1st person pronouns

3.1.16 Past tense

3.1.25 Suasive Verbs

3.1.8 Pronoun It

3.1.17 Public verb

3.1.9 BE as main verb

3.1.18 Adverbs

 

3.5 Sonificated features not included in Biber’s analysis

3.5.1 Mean utterance length (number of tokens)

3.5.2 Interjections

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