Download or read book A Corpus of Formal British English Speech written by Gerry Knowles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides 50,000 words of prosodically-transcribed text from a variety of sources. The introduction explains fully the transcription conventions, the structure of the corpus and its relationship to other computer corpora, and provides examples of different versions of texts.