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Specification of number and type of speakers

 

In addition to specifying the linguistic content of a corpus, the number and type of speakers in a corpus is the second major factor in specifying and classifying corpora. Due to their idiosyncratic  characteristics speakers add substantially to the amount of variation present in a corpus.




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