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Chapter 2.11 (PDF)

Utterances

The utterances provided below correspond to the waveforms throughout the chapter, which are displayed in the first window of the screenshots. The utterances reveal differences in prosody and intonation of speech. If an utterance is followed by a number in parentheses (), that means the utterance is part of a series where the prosody and intonation of speech vary.
 

• Display flights for Baltimore to Dallas which leave after four p.m.
• Um But I had I mean the stuff he knows; is kind of amazing 'coz he does a lot of um environmental impact stuff
• I want to see the cheapest flight from Atlanta to Baltimore
• Between Boston and Denver I'd like to; flight that takes the takes the least amount of stops; to get to Boston
• He does a lot of um environmental impact stuff
• What are the plane sizes for these flights and do they ha(ve); do; are there any other flights that have s- connections
• What is the b- abbreviation n under the category d c mean

Data

Audio and textgrid files are provided below for users who want to duplicate the results in the tutorial. Praat software, which is described in the tools section, can be used to open these files and recreate the windows displayed in the screenshots.

Figure 2.11.1, Figure 2.11.2, Figure 2.11.3, Figure 2.11.4, Figure 2.11.5, Figure 2.11.6, and Figure 2.11.7 (ZIP) (The ZIP file contains: 6 .TextGrid files, and 6 .wav files.)