Transcribing Prosodic Structure of Spoken Utterances with ToBI

Exercise 2.9

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Section 2.9 Exercises: The Downstepped High Phrase Accent (!H-) (ZIP) (The ZIP file contains: 8 .wav files, 14 .textgrid files, and 1 .pdf file.)

A: Listening Exercises

1. ex9a1laters: this file contains several speakers producing the word later. All but one have the !H-L% phrase accent boundary tone combination. Can you pick which?

B: Labelling Exercises

The following files have TextGrids with words only. Answer keys are provided.

1. ex9b1cigar (close but no cigar)
2. ex9b2cigar2 (close but no cigar)
3. ex9b3goodbye1 (good-bye)
4. ex9b4goodbye2 (good-bye)
5. ex9b5later (catch ya later)
6. ex9b6frozen (frozen)
7. ex9b7anna (Anna Anna)

C: Further Exercises

1. Produce and record (and try to label): Try the calling contour on a variety of names of differing lengths (and stress patterns), such as:
   Nel
   Nellie
   Melanie
   Melinda
   Annabel
   Marie
   Abercrombie
2. Produce and record (and try to label): Try saying different greetings. Do you produce the !H- phrase accent on any of them?
   Hello
   good-bye
   bye
   later
   see ya later
   hi
   hey there