6.911 | January IAP 2006 | Undergraduate

Transcribing Prosodic Structure of Spoken Utterances with ToBI

Lecture Notes

Chapter 2.8

Chapters: 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 2.10 | 2.11 | 2.12 | Appendix 1 | Appendix 2

Chapter 2.8 (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.

 

  • Design improvements and a schedule
  • Much, much dimmer
  • If he can then there’s no argument about it
  • I was wrong, an Stalin was right; I was wrong
  • To the right of the abandoned cottage
  • Marianna made the marmalade (6)

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 2.8.1, Figure 2.8.2, Figure 2.8.3, Figure 2.8.4, Figure 2.8.5, and Figure 2.8.6 (ZIP) (The ZIP file contains: 6 .TextGrid files, and 6 .wav files.)

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