Selected publications (see also full list)

Language varieties, language variation, language typology

Dafydd Gibbon, 2020-12-10

1976

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1976). Review of S. Gersic (1973), Materialien zur phonetischen Variabilität. Göppingen. 81, 291-293.

1981

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1981). Idiomaticity and functional variation. A case study of international amateur radio talk. Language and Society 10, 21-42. [PDF]

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd (1981). Metalocutions, structural types and functional variation in English and German. Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics 12, 1980:17-39. [PDF]

1979

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1979). Review of David Crystal and Derek Davy (1969). Investigating English Style. London. Indogermanische Forschungen 84, 1979:373-376.

1983

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd and Margret Selting (1983). Intonation und die Strukturierung eines Diskurses. In: Special issue: Wolfgang Klein, ed., Intonation. Zeitschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik (LiLi) 13 (49). Göttingen: Vandenhoek and Ruprecht, 53-73. [PDF]

1984

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1984). Intonation as an adaptive process. In: Dafydd Gibbon, Helmut Richter, eds. (1984). Intonation, Accent and Rhythm. Studies in Discourse Phonology. Berlin: de Gruyter, 165-192.

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd, Helmut Richter (1984). Phonology and Discourse: a Variety of Approaches. In: Dafydd Gibbon and Helmut Richter, eds. (1984). Intonation, Accent and Rhythm. Studies in Discourse Phonology. Berlin, de Gruyter, 1-9.

  3. Gibbon, Dafydd, Helmut Richter, eds. (1984). Intonation, Accent and Rhythm. Studies in Discourse Phonology. Berlin, de Gruyter.

1985

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1985). Context and variation in two-way radio discourse. In: Charles A. Ferguson, ed. Discourse Processes 8,4:391-420. [PDF]

1987

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1987). The role of discourse in intonation theory. In: Wolfgang Dressler, ed. (1984), Phonologica 1984. Cambridge, C.U.P. and Poznan, Adam-Mickiewicz-University Press. 49-58.

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd and Gisela Baumann (1987). Review of Gerhard Leitner, Gesprächsanalyse und Rundfunkkommunikation. Hildesheim, Olms, 1983. Language in Society. 16 (3), 427ff.

1988

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1988). Intonation and discourse. In: Janos Petöfi, ed. (1988), Text and Discourse Constitution. Berlin: de Gruyter. 3-25.

1992

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1992). Language and software, or: Fritzl's Quest. In: Christiane Floyd, Heinz Züllighoven, Reinhard Budde and Reinhard Keil-Slawik, eds. (1992). Software Development and Reality Construction. Berlin: Springer, 376-390. [PDF]

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd, Gunter Braun, Michaela Johanntokrax and Michael Schwalbe (1992). SAM EUROM German Project. [PDF]

1995

  1. Chan, Dominic, Adrian Fourcin, Dafydd Gibbon, Björn Grandstrom, Mark Huckvale, George Kokkinakis, Knut Kvale, Lori Lamel, Borge Lindberg, Asuncion Moreno, Jiannis Mouropoulos, Franco Senia, Isabel Trancoso, Cor in ‘t Veld, Jerome Zeiliger (1995). EUROM – a spoken language resource for the EU. Proc. EUROSPEECH 95, 867-870. [PDF]

  2. Winski, Richard, Roger Moore, Dafydd Gibbon (1995). EAGLES Spoken Language Working Group: overview and results. Proc. EUROSPEECH 95, 867-870. [PDF]

1996

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1996). Technologia mowy: infrastruktura i zastosowania. In: Z. Vetulani, W. Abramowicz, G. Vetulani, eds. (1996), Języka i technologia. Warszawa: Akademicka Oficyna Wydawnicza PLJ.

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd (1996). Technologia mowy: infrastruktura i zastosowania. Informatyka March 1996, 22-25.

  3. Gibbon, Dafydd (1996). Wielojezyczne spoleczenstwo informacyjne. Zycie Uniwersytetu, March 1996, Nr. 3 (35), Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, 17.

  4. Gibbon, Dafydd and Peter Ladkin (1996). Comments on confusing conversation at Cali. Online commentary: [PDF]

1997

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd and Claudia Sassen (1997). Prosody-particle pairs as discourse control signs. EUROSPEECH 97, 223-226. [PDF]

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd and Julie Carson-Berndsen (1997). Gesprochene Sprache. In: Hans Strohner, ed. (1997), Linguistik: Die Bielefelder Sicht. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 93-96.

1998

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (1998). German intonation. In: Daniel Hirst and Albert di Cristo, eds., Intonation Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 78-95. [PDF]

1999

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd and Harald Lüngen (1999). Consistent Vocabularies for Spoken Language Machine Translation Systems. In: Jost Gippert, ed. (1999), Mulitinguale Corpora. Codierung, Strukturierung, Analyse. Prague: Enigma Corporation, 169-178. [PDF]

2001

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2001). Finite state prosodic analysis of African corpus resources. Proc. EUROSPEECH 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, I: 83-86. [PDF]

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd, Thorsten Trippel and Serge Sharoff (2001). Concordancing for parallel spoken language corpora. Proc. EUROSPEECH 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, III: 2059 – 2062.

2002

  1. Atkins, Sue, Nuria Bel, Pierrette Bouillon, Thatsanee Charoenporn, Dafydd Gibbon, Ralph Grishman, Chu-Ren Huang, Asanee Kawtrakul, Nancy Ide, Hae-Yun Lee, Paul J. K. Li, Jock McNaught, Jan Odijk, Martha Palmer, Valeria Quochi, Ruth Reeves, Dipti Misra Sharma, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Takenobu Tokunaga, Gregor Thurmair, Marta Villegas, Antonio Zampolli, Elizabeth Zeiton (2002). Standards and Best Practice for Multilingual Computational Lexicons & MILE (the Multilingual ISLE Lexical Entry). Deliverable D2.2-D3.2, ISLE Computational Lexicon Working Group. [PDF]

  2. Connell, Bruce, Firmin Ahoua and Dafydd Gibbon (2002). Illustrations of the IPA: Ega. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 32/1 (2002), 99-104. [PDF]

  3. Gibbon, Dafydd (2002). Computational phonology and the typology of West African tone systems. In: Ulrike Gut and Dafydd Gibbon, eds. (2002), Typology of African Prosodic Systems (TAPS). Bielefeld: Bielefeld Occasional Papers in Typology 1. [PDF]

  4. Gibbon, Dafydd (2002). The WELD paradigm - Workable Efficient Language Documentation: a Report and a Vision. ELSNews 11.3 Autumn 2002, 3-5 [PDF].

  5. Gibbon, Dafydd (2002). Lasst sterbende Sprachen nicht allein! Leserbrief: Antwort auf Urs Willmann, "Leben und sterben lassen". DIE ZEIT Nr. 10, 28.2.2002, p. 31. Full submitted version. [PDF]

  6. Gibbon, Dafydd (2002). Ubiquitous multilingual corpus management in computational fieldwork. Proc. LREC 2002, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. [PDF]

  7. Gut, Ulrike and Dafydd Gibbon, eds. (2002). Typology of African Prosodic Systems. Bielefeld: Bielefeld Occasional Papers in Typology 1. [SITE]

  8. Gibbon, Dafydd, Ulrike Gut, Sandrine Adouakou and Eno-Abasi Urua. (2002). Rhythm in West African tone languges: a study of Ibibio, Anyi and Ega. In: Ulrike Gut and Dafydd Gibbon, eds. (2002). Typology of African Prosodic Systems, Bielefeld: Bielefeld Occasional Papers in Typology 1, 159-165. [PDF]

  9. Gibbon, Dafydd and Claudia Sassen (2002). Enhanced dialogue markup for crisis talk scenario resources. Proc. LREC 2002, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. [PDF]

2003

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2003). Computational linguistics in the Workable Efficient Language Documentation Paradigm. In: Gerd Willée, Bernhard Schröder and Hans-Christian Schmitz, Ed.. (2003). Computerlinguistik: Was geht, was kommt? St. Augustin: Gardez! Verlag, 75-80.

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd and Stephan Gramley (2003). Sprachen der britischen Inseln. In: Dieter Metzing, ed. (2003). Sprachen in Europa: Sprachpolitik, Sprachkontakt, Sprachkultur, Sprachentwicklung, Sprachtypoologie. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 77-110.

  3. Urua, Eno-Abasi, Dafydd Gibbon and Ulrike Gut (2003). A computational model of low tones in Ibibio. Proc. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, 2003, I: 623-626. [PDF]

  4. Raithel, Vivian, Dafydd Gibbon and Martina Hielscher, (2003). Aspekte emotionaler vs. linguistischer Prosodierezeption. Tagungsband des 73. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprach- und Stimmheilkunde e.V. (DGSS), 10.

2004

  1. Ekpenyong, M.; Urua, E. and Gibbon, D. (2004). Local e-Government Text-To-Speech: A Speech Technology Initiative. Journal of Computer Science and Its Applications. 10(2): 125-131.

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd (2004). Resources for Endangered Languages Specifications for a Roadmap. LREC post-conference workshop Building the LR&E Roadmap. Joint COCOSDA and ICCWLRE Meeting. [PDF]

  3. Gibbon, Dafydd (2004). Tone and timing: two problems and two methods for prosodic typology. Proc. International Conference on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL) 28-30 March 2004, Beijing. [PDF]

  4. Gibbon, Dafydd, Catherine Bow, Steven Bird and Baden Hughes (2004). Securing interpretability: the case of Ega language documentation. Proc. LREC 2004, Lisbon. [PDF]

  5. Gibbon, Dafydd, Eno-Abasi Urua and Moses Ekpenyong (2004). Data Creation for Ibibio Speech Synthesis. LLSTI Workshop at LREC. [PDF]

  6. Gibbon, Dafydd, Eno-Abasi Urua and Moses Ekpenyong (2004). WALA: A proposal for a West African Language Archive. Proc. West African Linguistics Conference, Ibadan 2004

  7. Gibbon, Dafydd, Eno-Abasi Urua and Moses Ekpenyong (2004). WATTS: West African Text-to-Speech. A speech technology initiative. Proc. West African Linguistics Conference, Ibadan, 2004.

  8. Gibbon, Dafydd, Eno-Abasi Urua, Moses Ekpenyong (2004). Uyo Ibibio Concordance. Ms. [PDF]

  9. Gibbon, Dafydd, Eno-Abasi Urua, Moses Ekpenyong (2004). Uyo Ibibio Dictionary. Ms. [PDF]

  10. Gibbon, Dafydd, Firmin Ahoua, Eddi Aimé Gbery, Eno-Abasi Urua, Moses Ekpenyong (2004). A Resource Creation Model for West African Languages. Proc. West African Linguistics Conference, Ibadan.

  11. Gibbon, Dafydd, Firmin Ahoua, Eno-Abasi Urua, Eddy Aimé Gbery and Moses Ekpenyong (2004). WALA: a multilingual resource repository for West African Languages. Proc. LREC 2004, Lisbon. [PDF]

2005

  1. Amsalu, Saba and Dafydd Gibbon (2005). A complete FS model for Amharic morphographemics. Proc. Finite State Methods in Natural Language Processing Conference, Helsinki. [PDF]

  2. Amsalu, Saba and Dafydd Gibbon (2005). Finite State Morphology of Amharic. Proc. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing Conference. Sophia, Bulgaria.[PDF]

  3. Gibbon, Dafydd (2005). Afterword: Navigating Pronunciation in Search of the Golden Fleece. In: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk and Joanna Przedlacka, eds. (2005). English Pronunciation Models: A Changing Scene. Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication. Bern etc.: Peter Lang Verlag. [PDF]

  4. Gibbon, Dafydd and Flaviane Romani Fernandes (2005). Annotation-Mining for Rhythm Model Comparison in Brazilian Portuguese. Proc. INTERSPEECH 2005, 3289-3292. [PDF]

2006

  1. Ekpenyong, Moses, Nnamso Umoh, Mfon Udoinyang, Glory Ibiang, Eno-Abasi Urua, Dafydd Gibbon (2006). Infrastructure to Empowerment: An OSWA+GIS Model for Documenting Local Languages. EMELD Workshop, East Lansing, USA.

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd (2006). Language Documentation in West Africa. ALASA SIG workshop, Stellenbosch. [PDF]

  3. Gibbon, Dafydd (2006). On Apple Pie. An essay in practical semantics. [PDF]

  4. Gibbon, Dafydd (2006). The Bielefeld Abidjan Documentation Project. LSA Linguistic Exploration Workshop, Chicago, 6 January 2000. [PDF]

  5. Gibbon, Dafydd and Eno-Abasi Urua (2006). Morphotonology for TTS in Niger-Congo languages. Proc. 3rd International Conference on Speech Prosody. Dresden: TUD Press. [PDF]

  6. Gibbon, Dafydd, Eno-Abasi Urua and Moses Ekpenyong (2006). Problems and solutions in African tone language Text-To-Speech. In: Justus Roux, ed. Proc. Multiling 2006 Conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa. [PDF]

  7. Kul, Małgorzata and Dafydd Gibbon (2006). Economy strategies in English and Polish text messages as examples of channel constraints. PLM 2006.

  8. Tseng, Shu-Chuan and Dafydd Gibbon (2006). Discourse functions of duration in Mandarin. Proc. LREC 2006, Genoa. [PDF]

2007

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2007). Chairman's Statement. Panel discussion on Homeland Security. LTC 2007, Poznań. [PDF]

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd and Briony Williams (2007). Timing patterns in Welsh. Proc. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrücken. [PDF]

  3. Gibbon, Dafydd and Eno-Abasi Urua (2007). Morphotonology for TTS in Niger-Congo languages. 4th obaczInternational Conference on Speech Prosody. [PDF]

  4. Gibbon, Dafydd and Nadine Borchardt (2007). Computational lexicography: a training programme for language documentation in West Africa. In: B.M. Mbah and E.E. Mbah, eds. (2007), Linguistics in History: Essays in honour of P.A. Nwachukwu. Nsukka, Nigeria: University of Nigeria Press. [PDF]

  5. Gibbon, Dafydd, Jolanta Bachan and Grazyna Demenko (2007). Syllable timing patterns in Polish: results from annotation mining. Proc. INTERSPEECH/EUROSPEECH 2007, Antwerp. [PDF]

  6. Kopp, Stefan, Thorsten Stocksmeier and Dafydd Gibbon (2007). Incremental Multimodal Feedback for Conversational Agents. International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2007): Intelligent Virtual Agents 139-146. [PDF]

  7. Stocksmeier, Thorsten, Stefan Kopp and Dafydd Gibbon (2007). Synthesis of prosodic attitudinal variants in German backchannel ‘ja’. Proc. INTERSPEECH/EUROSPEECH 2007, Antwerp. [PDF]

  8. Urua, Eno-Abasi, Moses Ekpenyong, Dafydd Gibbon and Firmin Ahoua (2007). Developing a Master’s Programme on Language Documentation for Local Languages. Proc. UNESCO/ACALAN Conference Identifying Good Practices in Safeguarding Endangered Languages, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia February 9-10, 2007.

2008

  1. Ekpenyong, Moses, Eno-Abasi Urua and Dafydd Gibbon (2008). Towards an unrestricted domain TTS system for African tone languages. International Journal of SpeechTechnology, 87-96. [PDF]

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd (2008). Efficient Language Documentation: creation of local multipliers. LSA 2008 Annual Meeting Tutorial: Mobilizing linguistic resources within speaker communities. [PDF], slides: [PDF]

  3. Gibbon, Dafydd (2008). Summary. Lesser Used Languages and Computational Linguistics Conference, LULCL II 2008, Bolzano, Italy. [Slides] [PDF]

  4. Gibbon, Dafydd (2008). The Ambiguity of ‘Language’. April Conference , Jagellonian University, Kraków. [Slides] [PDF]

2009

  1. Ahoua, Firmin, Kouamé Adjépole and Dafydd Gibbon (2009). Prosodic domains and tones in speech and songs in Anyi Sanvi. World Congress of African Linguistics. [Abstract] [PDF]

  2. Gibbon, Dafydd (2009). Kleinste deutsche Versschule. Für Alex. Ms. [PDF]

  3. Gibbon, Dafydd, Firmin Ahoua, Blé François Kipré and Sascha Griffiths (2009). Discrete level narrative, terraced music: insights from underdocumented Ivorian languages. Language Documentation & Linguistic Theory Conference (LDLTC). [PDF]

  4. Gibbon, Dafydd, François Blé Kipré (2009). Analysis and synthesis of lexical tone in discourse Bete narrative prosody. Abstract, World Congress of African Linguistics. [PDF]

2010

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2010). The ambiguity of ‘ambiguity’: beauty, power, and understanding. In: Maria Jodłowicz and Justyna Leśniewska, eds., (2010), Ambiguity and the Search for Meaning. English and American Studies at the Beginning of the 21st century. Vol. 2: Language and Culture. Kraków: Jagellonian University Press, 33-51.[PDF]

2011

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd, Firmin Ahoua and Adjépole Kouamé (2011). Modelling speech-song relations: an exploratory study of pitch contours, tones and prosodic domains in Anyi. Proc. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2011, Hong Kong. [PDF]

2012

  1. Yu, Jue and Gibbon, Dafydd (2012). Criteria for database and tool design for speech timing analysis with special reference to Mandarin. Proc. Oriental COCOSDA, University of Macau. December 2012. [PDF]

2014

  1. Yu, Jue, Dafydd Gibbon and Katarzyna Klessa (2014). Computational annotation-mining of syllable durations in speech varieties. Proc. 7th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 20-23 May 2014. Dublin. [PDF]

2015

  1. Yu, Jue and Dafydd Gibbon (2015). How natural is Chinese L2 English prosody? Proc. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow 2015. [PDF]

  2. Yu, Jue and Dafydd Gibbon (2015). Time Group types in Mandarin syllable annotations. Proc. Oriental COCOSDA 2015, Shanghai. [PDF]

2019

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd and Xuewei Lin (2020). Rhythm Zone Theory: Speech Rhythms are Physical after all. In: Magdalena Wrembel, Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak and Piotr Gąsiorowski, eds. Approaches to the Study of Sound Structure and Speech. Interdisciplinary Work in Honour of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk. London: Routledge. [Draft] [PDF]

  2. Xuewei Lin and Dafydd Gibbon (2019). Classroom Reading: Speech Assessment from a Phonetic Perspective. Proc. International Symposium on SLA-based Language Pedagogy, Jinan University, Guangzhou, January 04 – 06, 2019, 312-318. [PDF]

2020

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (2020). Computational induction of prosodic structure. Studies in Prosodic Grammar 6 (2). [Prepublication draft] [PDF]

Submitted

  1. Gibbon, Dafydd (n.d.). Rhythms of rhythm. Hierarchical induction of low frequency speech patterns.