This book takes the reader on a journey through the structure of everyday spoken English, providing a fresh look at the relation between language and the mind.

Jim Miller and Regina Weinert investigate syntactic structure and the organization of discourse in spontaneous spoken language. Using data from English, German,

Automated Speaking Assessment: Using Language Technologies to Score Spontaneous Speech provides a thorough overview of state-of-the-art automated speech scoring

What is the best way to analyze spontaneous spoken language? In their search for the basic units of spoken language the authors of this volume opt for a corpus-

The authors of this book share a common interest in the following topics: the importance of corpora compilation for the empirical study of human language; the i