Kibrik, A. A. and V. I. Podlesskaja (eds.) 2009. Stories about dreams: a corpus study of Russian oral discourse. Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures (in Russian). Kibrik, A. A. and V. I. Podlesskaja (eds.). 2009. Rasskazy o snovidenijax: Korpusnoje issledovanije ustnogo russkogo diskursa. Moskva: Jazyki slavjanskix kulâtur. Reviewed by Veronika Makarova The volume Stories about dreams: a corpus study of Russian oral discourse examines different linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects of storytelling by Russian children and adolescents talking about their night dreams. The corpus includes a total of 129 stories produced by 69 subjects with, as well as 60 subjects without, neurological disorders. Further, the total duration of the corpus is under 2 hours and the total number of words is about 14,000. The volume edited by A. A. Kibrik and V. I. Podlesskaja describes the results of a longitudinal research study conducted by a group of scholars from the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow State University, the I.M. Sechenov Medical Academy, and the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The book is written in Russian and accompanied by a CD-ROM providing the sound files and transcripts of the examined speech corpus. The initial
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