Transcribing Prosodic Structure of Spoken Utterances with ToBI
Lecture Notes
The course is organized as a free-standing tutorial in a series of sections. Each lecture session covers chapters in the ToBI tutorial, and each chapter lists the audio and textgrid files used with the Praat software to create the screenshots. Students are expected to study and understand the assigned sections each week and to complete the exercises before going on to the next sections.
The audio files provided with this course are the original work of the Ohio State University Research Foundationand the OSU ToBI research group, and are presented with permission. They were funded by an NSF grant to the Ohio State University Research Foundation, and as such may only be used for non-commerical purposes.
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CHAPTERS |
TOPICS |
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1 |
Introduction, Overview and Some Basics |
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2 |
Adding to the Inventory: L* and H-H% |
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3 |
Other Full Intonational Phrase Boundary Tone Combinations: H-L% and L-H% |
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4 |
Relationships among Pitch Accents within a Phrase: !H* |
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5 |
More on Downstep: Bi-tonal Pitch Accents with a Downstepped H Element (!H) |
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6 |
Intermediate Intonational Phrases: 3 Breaks and Phrase Accents |
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7 |
Break Index 2 |
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Straight-line Approximations for Final-pitch-accent/Phrase-tone/Boundary-tone Combinations |
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Praat Script to Load Multiple Files |
Exercises
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EXERCISES |
TOPICS |
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Praat & H* L-L% |
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L* H-H% |
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More than One Pitch Accent in a Phrase |
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Other Phrase Accent-boundary Tone Combinations |
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L+H* and L*+H |
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!H* |
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Bi-tonals with a !H Element |
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3 Breaks, and The L- and H- Phrase Accents |
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The Downstepped High Phrase Accent (!H-) |