Dafydd Gibbon

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Urua, Eno-Abasi; Ekpenyong, Moses; Ahoua, Firmin (2009). Language Development beyond Borders. A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Dr. Dafydd Gibbon. University of Uyo, Nigeria and Université Houphouet Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. ISBN   978-978-055-556-6.
  • 2014: "Officier de l'Ordre du Mérite Ivoirien" in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, for his life's work in supporting linguistics and language technologies in West Africa [22] [33] [34]
  • Selected publications

    Books

    Book chapters and articles

    • Gibbon, Dafydd (1988). "Intonation and discourse." In Janos Petöfi, ed. (1988), Text and Discourse Constitution. Berlin: de Gruyter. 3-25.
    • Gibbon, Dafydd (1995). "Empirical and semiotic foundations of prosodic analysis." In: Uta Quasthoff, ed. (1995), Aspects of Oral Communication, Research in Texttheory. Berlin: de Gruyter.
    • Gibbon, Dafydd (1992). "ILEX: A Linguistic Approach to Computational Lexica." Computatio Linguae, Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, 73:32-53.
    • Gibbon, Dafydd and Inge Mertins (2000). "Terminology for spoken language systems." In: Gibbon, Dafydd, Inge Mertins and Roger Moore, eds. (2000). Handbook of Multimodal and Spoken Dialogue Systems: Resources, Terminology and Product Evaluation. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 240-280.
    • Gibbon, Dafydd (2001). "Finite state prosodic analysis of African corpus resources," Proceedings of Eurospeech 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, I: 83-86.
    • Gibbon, Dafydd (2006). "Time Types and Time Trees: Prosodic Mining and Alignment of Temporally Annotated Data." In: Sudhoff, Stefan, Denisa Lenertova, Roland Meyer, Sandra Pappert, Petra Augurzky, Ina Mleinek, Nicole Richter and Johannes Schließer, eds. (2006). Methods in Empirical Prosody Research. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 181-210.
    • Gibbon, Dafydd and Sascha Griffiths (2017). "Multilinear Grammar: Ranks and Interpretations." In: Open Linguistics 3 (1): 265–307.

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    Dafydd Gibbon
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    Born (1944-04-05) 5 April 1944 (age 80) [1]
    Academic background
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