6.911 | January IAP 2006 | Undergraduate

Transcribing Prosodic Structure of Spoken Utterances with ToBI

Exercises

Exercise 2.7

Exercises: 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.9

Section 2.7 Exercises: Bitonals with a !H Element (ZIP) (The ZIP file contains: 8 .wav files, 12 .textgrid, and 1 .pdf files.)

A. Listening Exercises

Just listen and focus on the prosody.

  1. ex7a1HdownHstarLL: This file contains several speakers producing H+!H* L-L% on different words and short phrases.
  2. ex7a2HdownHstarHL: This file contains several speakers producing H+!H* H-L% on different words and short phrases.

B: Labelling Exercises

The following files have TextGrids provided that contain partial ToBI labels. The locations of pitch accents have been marked with “*” - your job is to determine what pitch accent label to use for each one.

  1. ex7b1yellow
  2. ex7b2amelia_amelia
  3. ex7b3onion
  4. ex7b4unusual
  5. ex7b5minerva
  6. ex7b6another
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