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Avenues for corpus-based research on informal spoken Czech

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2014

Abstract

This paper focuses on several phenomena typical for spontaneous spoken Czech in informal conversation (prototypical spoken texts). Spontaneous spoken language is the means of communication typically used in the family circle, among friends and close people, in cases in which the speaker is minimally self-conscious about the formal attributes of his/her speech.

It is often characterized by no preparation, improvisation, dialogue, and informality. In general, this paper aims to show the possibilities of using the publicly available corpora of spoken Czech and to contribute to the broader description of Czech, which has been primarily based on written language.