Principles of Prosodic Transcription in Corpus-Based Studies
The paper aims to identify the basic principles of prosodic transcription which can be used to compile a Spoken Corpus of the Buryat dialect. The article provides a survey of the existing prosodic transcription systems developed in the “pre-corpus” period and in the period of speech corpuses formation. Scientific originality of the study lies in the fact that for the first time in the Buryat linguistics, the author proposes a prosodic transcription system based on findings of previous researches. The obtained results are as follows: the author identifies the basic and secondary parameters of transcription, discovers principles of a prosodic transcription system for the Buryat language.