Using large corpora and computational tools to describe prosody: An exciting challenge for the future with some (important) pending problems to solve

This chapter presents and discusses the use of corpus-based methods for prosody
analysis. Corpus-based methods make use of large corpora and computational tools
to extract conclusions from the analysis of copious amounts of data and are being
used already in many scientific disciplines. However, they are not yet frequently
used in phonetic and phonological studies. Existing computational tools for the automatic processing of prosodic corpora are reviewed, and some examples of studies
in which this methodology has been applied to the description of prosody are presented.