2
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NDEX
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NDEX
............................................................................................................................... 2
1
Introduction.............................................................................................................. 3
2
Interpreting as an externally paced activity ............................................................. 4
3
Measuring the delivery rate of a speech .................................................................. 6
4
Theoretical Framework .......................................................................................... 11
4.1
Syllabic compression ..................................................................................... 11
4.2
Lexical compression ...................................................................................... 13
4.3
Syntactic compression
...................................................................................... 13
4.4
Semantic compression ................................................................................... 13
4.5
Situational compression ................................................................................. 14
5
Compression in SI and in ICTs .............................................................................. 16
6
Corpus .................................................................................................................... 17
6.1
Features of the Corpus ................................................................................... 17
6.1.1
Event and discourse context: who, when, where, what, why ................ 18
6.1.2
Spontaneity index: recited, rehearsed, semi-rehearsed or improvised? . 19
6.1.3
Rate of delivery...................................................................................... 20
6.1.4
Style ....................................................................................................... 21
6.2
Transcription .................................................................................................. 22
6.2.1
Segmentation.......................................................................................... 23
6.2.2
Labelling ................................................................................................ 24
7
Results and Conclusion.......................................................................................... 25
8
References.............................................................................................................. 28
9
Appendix 1 – Annotated Spoken Corpus............................................................... 30