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Zurich Center for Linguistics

KLIP 2012

2012 ZüKL invited applications for funding of small research projects, which either had to form the base for a later full-fledged proposal or help to build sharable infrastructure. Projects by all ZüKL members were eligible, and projects crossing institutional borders were encouraged. Below all accepted projects are briefly described.

Zurich Electronic Corpus of Language Varieties (ZEKO)

Project leader: Elvira Glaser (Department of German Studies)

Two Swiss German texts with ca. 50,000 tokens were normalised and added to the corpus. Some progress was made in the programming of the planned online plattform as well as in the platform's documentation.

Enlargement of a non-standard online corpus with Swiss German and Tessin recordings from the Phonogram Archive

Project leaders: Elvira Glaser (Department of German Studies), Michele Loporcaro (Department of Romance studies)

The 189 Swiss German texts of the Viennese Edition were converted to TEI XML. Ten audio recordings were digitalised and transcribed (ca. 12,000 words).

The perception of French word stress by speakers of Standard and Swiss German

Project leaders: Volker Dellow (Phonetics Laboratory), Agnes Kolmer (Department of German Studies)

Perception experiments with native speakers of Standard and Swiss German were conducted in several places. The pilot study took place in Zurich, further experiments again in Zurich and also in Basel, Bern, Chur, Lyon, and Marburg. The results of the study will be presented at the CIL 19 workshop „Word stress: dialectal variation and perception“. The publication of an article and a bigger application are planned.

Pilot project „Kleine Zeitungen“ (Variation in the Grammar of Standard German)

Project leader: Christa Dürscheid (Department of German studies)

An existing corpus of online local newspapers was enlarged and annotated. Several newspapers from Germany as well as texts from South Tyrol were added. The corpus was tagged for POS automatically and the search mask was improved.

Annotation and alignment of a parallel multilingual corpus for the research projects on the areal typology of the noun phrase in the URPP „Language and Space“

Project leaders: Marianne Hundt (English Department), Martin Volk (Institute of Computational Linguistics)

Information about the availability of parallel corpora and annotation tools was collected. A draft was written for a bigger proposal.

Meanwhile the project leaders have finished the draft and submitted it to the SNF under the title „Large-Scale Annotation and Alignment of Parallel Corpora for the Investigation of Linguistic Variation“. The proposal has been accepted and the project has started in autumn 2013.

Ambiguity, Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition

Project leaders: Sabine Stoll (Psycholinguistics Research Unit), Gerold Schneider (English Department)

One subproject investigated the lexical structure of L1, comparing German, English, and Russian. For this existing corpora were cleaned and some n-gram analyses were conducted.

The other subproject dealt with the parsability of L2 utterances. It could be shown that L2 utterances are more difficult to process for an automatical syntactic parser and that the level of the learner also plays a role in this. The project has yielded a publication. A proposal to the SNF is planned.