homeVOICE thanks
Building a corpus of spoken ELF would not be possible without the help of a large number of individuals and institutions who give us the opportunity to record their daily ELF conversations. While we cannot thank everybody in person - for reasons of feasibility as well as confidentiality - the following institutions have agreed to be mentioned here. We would like to express our thanks to them and also to all others who are not listed here but have kindly supported our data gathering:
- Bundesministerium für soziale Sicherheit, Generationen und Konsumentenschutz - Bereich Jugend (www.jugend.bmsk.gv.at)
- Central European Seminar (CES)
- European Youth Forum (www.youthforum.org)
- Innovationszentrum Universität Wien - Sommerhochschule (www.univie.ac.at/sommerhochschule)
- Innovationszentrum Universität Wien Sprachenzentrum (Sprachenzentrum)
- Institutional Network of the UNIversities from the CApitals of Europe (UNICA)
- Österreichische Bundesjugendvertretung (www.jugendvertretung.at)
- Taste The Language (www.tastethelanguage.net)
- UNICA Student Conference, Paris 2006 (www.unicainparis.fr)
- Zentrale Mediathek der Europäischen Kommission (http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/)
In the pilot phase before its establishment as an FWF project, VOICE benefited from the support of a number of academic colleagues:
- Guy Aston, University of Bologna
- Guy Cook, Open University (then University of Reading)
- Jennifer Jenkins, University of Southampton (then King's College London)
- Juliane House, University of Hamburg
- Peter Trudgill, University of Fribourg (now Emeritus)
We would like to thank them here for their inspiration and advice, and for their belief in the project in those early days.
Furthermore, we would like to acknowledge the following institutions who helped the VOICE project by providing knowledge and tools:
- Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) (http://www.tei-c.org) and all individuals involved in the creation of the TEI Guidelines
- Acoustics Research Institute (www.kfs.oeaw.ac.at), for providing the software package STx
Last and most, all team members past and present would like to express their sincere thanks to Henry Widdowson. He has given generously of his time and his ideas, has taken part in countless meetings, discussed difficult issues with us, helped with the editing of numerous texts, enjoyed our successes with us and generally given his unstinting support to the team members in their academic work since the very beginning of the project.