1. 1 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_ToBI Barcelona | 17 de juliol de 2009 Grup d’Estudis de Prosòdia Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Universitat Pompeu Fabra The Cat_ToBI training materials

2. 2 Introduction n Large, prosodically labeled corpora are needed to understand the prosodic mechanisms that dominate the spoken communication between humans. n ToBI: community-wide conventions to transcribe the prosody of spoken utterances in a language variety. Well- trained transcribers are required. NECESSARY n To provide a freely available manual to teach the system to new transcribers

3. 3 Aim n To develop a website with the Catalan ToBI Training Materials n explanations, n recorded examples of transcribed utterances, n interactive exercises with sounds and graphics, and n for the first time in the ToBI Training Materials, a basic ear training section.

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5. 5 Website structure n Course guide n Ear training n Cat_ToBI Labeling system n Exercises n References

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7. 7 Website structure n Course guide n Ear training n Cat_ToBI Labeling system n Exercises

8. 8 Course guide n Goals of the course n Description of the course n Core concepts n Glossary

9. 9 Website structure n Course guide n Ear training n Cat_ToBI Labeling system n Exercises

10. 10 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

11. 11 Ear training - Listening

12. 12 Ear training – Pitch identification

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14. 14 Ear training – Pitch discrimination

15. 15 Ear training – Pair sounds ordering

16. 16 Ear training – Pitch identification in context: counting sounds

17. 17 Ear training – Pitch identification in context: locating sounds

18. 18 Website structure n Course guide n Ear training n Cat_ToBI Labeling system n Exercises

19. 19 Cat_ToBI Labeling system Uses of Cat_ToBI Description of the system Prosodic phrasing Tonal representation

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22. 22 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

23. 23 ToBI tiers, tones and labels

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25. 25 Prosodic phrasing

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27. 27 Tonal representation

28. 28 Tonal representation

29. 29 Pitch accents

30. 30 Tonal representation

31. 31 Boundary tones

32. 32 Tonal representation

33. 33 Nuclear configurations

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35. 35 Website structure n Course guide n Ear training n Cat_ToBI Labeling system n Exercises

36. 36 Ear training Phrasing Tonal representation Recognition Labeling

37. 37 n Phrasing n Recognition

38. 38 Exercises n Phrasing

39. 39 n Pitch accents, boundary tones, and nuclear configurations n Recognition n Labeling

40. 40 n Recognition

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42. 42 n Labeling

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44. 44 Ear training Phrasing Tonal representation Recognition Labeling

45. 45 Website structure n Course guide n Ear training n Cat_ToBI Labeling system n Exercises

46. 46 Final remarks Web analytics Google Analytics’ detailed statistics about the website visitors.

47. 47 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

48. 48 Uses and applications 1. Training transcribers n Training transcribers of Catalan speech databases in the AM framework. n Helping naïve transcribers of different languages before being faced with the labeling systems: n 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. n Helping transcribers to be consistent. n This is the last of the five requirements of the ToBI systems: to check inter-coder agreement by means of consistency tests.

49. 49 Uses and applications 2. Conducting research n By searching the corpus on the prosodic phenomena. n Using the corpus as an annotated database to obtain quantitative results. n Using the prosodic analysis and quantitative data for speech synthesis. n Allowing easy inter-linguistic comparisons. 3. Learning and Teaching n Learning Catalan prosody in an autonomous way. n Teaching Catalan prosody both to students of linguistics and to L2 learners.

50. 50 Ongoing projects n Teaching: MA courses n Consistence tests: reliability among transcribers n Twin site: Sp_ToBI Training Materials Near future n Expansion: method to be used by other ToBI systems n Laboratório de Fonética, CLUL, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa n Institut für Linguistik, Universität zu Köln

51. 51 Funded projects n “Glissando, un corpus de habla anotado para estudios prosódicos en catalán y español: aplicaciones en tecnologías del habla”, FFI2008-04982-C03-02/FILO n “Guia multimèdia per a la percepció i la transcripció de l’entonació del castellà i del català”, 2009MQD 00146

52. 52 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”.

53. 53 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.

54. 54 http://prosodia.uab.cat/cat_tobi