Download or read book A Corpus of Formal British English Speech written by Gerald Knowles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1996 with total page 288 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.