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Japanese ToBI Labelling Guidelines

Jennifer J. Venditti, Ohio State University October 1995

• What is Japanese ToBI?
• Word Tier
• Tone Tier
  • Accent H*+L
    • No Mark for Downstep
  • Phrasal H-
  • Boundary Tones
    • Final L and wL
    • Initial L and wL
    • Final H
    • Final HL
  • Accent Uncertainty (*?)
• Break Index Tier
  • Break Index 0
  • Break Index 1
  • Break Index 2
  • Break Index 3
  • Mismatch (``m'')
  • Break Index Uncertainty (``--'')
  • Disfluencies (``p'')
• Finality Tier
• Miscellaneous Tier
• Online Data Files and Future Versions
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Appendix A Romanization
• Appendix B Non- Waves+ J_ToBI transcriptions
• Appendix C J_ToBI Labelling Conventions
  • #whatis#428>
  • #words#434>
  • #tones#437>
  • #breaks#471>
  • #final#496>
  • #misc#500>
• Appendix D Practice Utterances
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