SECOPETS语料库的设计原则及初始研究

The Design Principles of the SECOPETS Corpus and a Preliminary Study

本文从总体设计方案、语料的收集原则、语料的转写规范和标注方法以及语料处理工具的开发四个方面简要介绍了公共英语等级考试口语语料库的设计原则,并报告了以该语料库为基础针对中国学习者英语口语产出的初始研究结果,在一定程度上揭示了中国学习者英语口语中词汇和句法的使用和发展规律。

This paper briefly introduces the design principles of the Spoken English Corpus of Public English Test System （SECOPETS） from the perspectives of the general scheme,the principle of data collection,the methods for data transcription and annotation as well as the development of the corpus processing tools.It also reports on the results of a preliminary study based on this corpus and has revealed,to some extent,the patterns of use and development of vocabulary and syntax in Chinese EFL learners＇ spoken English.