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Carme de-la-Mota • Lourdes Aguilar • Joan Borràs-Comes • Verònica Crespo-Sendra •

Pilar Prieto Rafèu Sichel • Maria del Mar Vanrell

Workshop sobre entonació del català i Cat_ToBIBarcelona | 17 de juliol de 2009

Grup d’Estudis de ProsòdiaUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

The Cat_ToBIThe Cat_ToBItraining materialstraining materials

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IntroductionLarge, prosodically labeled corpora are needed to understand the prosodic mechanisms that dominate the spoken communication between humans.ToBI: community-wide conventions to transcribe the prosody of spoken utterances in a language variety. Well-trained transcribers are required.

NECESSARYTo provide a freely available manual to teach the system to new transcribers

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AimTo develop a website with the Catalan ToBI Training Materials

explanations, recorded examples of transcribed

utterances, interactive exercises with sounds and

graphics, and for the first time in the ToBI Training

Materials, a basic ear training section.

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Website structureCourse guideEar trainingCat_ToBI Labeling systemExercisesReferences

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Website structureCourse guideEar trainingCat_ToBI Labeling systemExercises

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Course guideGoals of the courseDescription of the courseCore conceptsGlossary

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Website structureCourse guideEar trainingCat_ToBI Labeling systemExercises

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Ear training•First step before being confronted with the actual intonation patterns•Stimuli: human voice •Goal: practice

•Getting used: listening•Tone identification and discrimination:

•high,•low, •rising and •falling pitch movements

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Ear training - Listening

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Ear training – Pitch identification

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Ear training – Pitch discrimination

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Ear training – Pair sounds ordering

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Ear training – Pitch identification in context: counting sounds

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Ear training – Pitch identification in context: locating sounds

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Website structureCourse guideEar trainingCat_ToBI Labeling systemExercises

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Cat_ToBI Labeling system

•Uses of Cat_ToBI

•Description of the system•Prosodic phrasing

•Tonal representation

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Description of the system

•The Orthographic Tier•The Phonetic Transcription Tier (IPA) •The Break Index Tier for indices of cohesion •The Tone Tier for the intonational analysis•The Miscellaneous Tier for other information

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ToBI tiers, tones and labels

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Prosodic phrasing

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Tonal representation

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Tonal representation

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Pitch accents

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Tonal representation

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Boundary tones

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Tonal representation

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Nuclear configurations

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•Ear training

•Phrasing•Tonal representation

•Recognition•Labeling

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PhrasingRecognition

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ExercisesPhrasing

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Pitch accents, boundary tones, and nuclear configurations

RecognitionLabeling

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Recognition

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Labeling

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•Ear training

•Phrasing•Tonal representation

•Recognition•Labeling

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Website structureCourse guideEar trainingCat_ToBI Labeling systemExercises

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Final remarks Web analytics

Google Analytics’ detailed statistics about the website visitors.

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Final remarks Web analytics

Google Analytics’ detailed statistics about the website visitors.

-Amount of pageviews over time-Average time spent on the site-Number of page views per session-Users' geographical dispersion

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Uses and applications1. Training transcribers

Training transcribers of Catalan speech databases in the AM framework.Helping naïve transcribers of different languages before being faced with the labeling systems:

without assuming any background in linguistics or speech sciences, new labelers can perform a set of ear-training exercises before they start transcribing on their own.

Helping transcribers to be consistent.This is the last of the five requirements of the ToBI systems: to check inter-coder agreement by means of consistency tests.

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Uses and applications2. Conducting research

By searching the corpus on the prosodic phenomena.Using the corpus as an annotated database to obtain quantitative results.Using the prosodic analysis and quantitative data for speech synthesis.Allowing easy inter-linguistic comparisons.

3. Learning and TeachingLearning Catalan prosody in an autonomous way.Teaching Catalan prosody both to students of linguistics and to L2 learners.

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Ongoing projects Teaching: MA courses Consistence tests: reliability among

transcribers Twin site: Sp_ToBI Training Materials

Near future Expansion: method to be used by other ToBI

systems Laboratório de Fonética, CLUL, Faculdade de

Letras da Universidade de Lisboa Institut für Linguistik, Universität zu Köln

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Funded projects “Glissando, un corpus de habla anotado para

estudios prosódicos en catalán y español: aplicaciones en tecnologías del habla”, FFI2008-04982-C03-02/FILO

“Guia multimèdia per a la percepció i la transcripció de l’entonació del castellà i del català”, 2009MQD 00146

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Aknowledgements We would like to thank Jill Thorson for the English text revision.This project was funded by three grants awarded by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación:• GLISSANDO, FFI2008-04982-C003-02, • “Estructura prosódica y adquisición de la

prosodia en catalán y español”, HUM2006-01758/FILO and

• CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 “Bilingüismo y Neurociencia Cognitiva CSD2007-00012”.

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References•Beckman, M. – Hirschberg, J. –Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. (2005) “The original ToBI system and the evolution of the ToBI framework”, in S. A. Jun (ed.) Prosodic Typology and Transcription: A Unified Approach, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

•Prieto, P. – Aguilar, L. – Mascaró, I. – Torres-Tamarit, F. - Vanrell, M.M. (2009) “L’etiquetatge prosòdic Cat_ToBI”, Estudios de Fonética Experimental XVIII, pp. 287-309.

•De-la-Mota, C. - Aguilar, L. - Sichel-Bazin, R. - Joan Borràs-Comes, J. (2009) “Development of Catalan and Spanish ToBI online training materials”, Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia (PaPI), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 17-18 June 2009.

•Prieto, P. (in press). “The Intonational Phonology of Catalan”. in S. A. Jun (ed.) Prosodic Typology 2, Oxford University Press: Oxford.

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