There are 9 short utterances in the set for today. The focus is on recognizing the pitch accents H*, L+H* and L*, as well as phrase accents L- and H-, and boundary tones, L% and H%.
Since I didn't mention it last week, I'll just point out that pitch accents are transcribed using an asterisk*, phrase accents with a hyphen -, and boundary tones with a percent sign %. Remember that whether a tone is low (L) or high (H) is relative with respect to the rest of the utterance.
When you view the soundfile with the corresponding textgrid file, you'll see that there are four tiers in the textgrid. The top tier is the orthographic tier (where the words are), followed in order by the tones tier, the breaks tier and the miscellaneous tier. For now, we'll concentrate on the tones tier. So, for Friday, please decide how you would label each utterance. You can write it down on paper, i.e. you don't have to bring a completely labeled textgrid file with you (unless it helps you) -- we'll put each one up on the screen and talk about where to align which tone labels.
If you have time and are interested, there is an excellent and brief intonation tutorial on the web at the following location: http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~jjv/. This is the homepage of Jennifer Venditti, an OSU Linguistics alumna who is now a postdoc at Columbia University. Look under "Teaching" for the "Intro to Intonation [ppt.]". If you download this to your computer, you can run the slide show in Powerpoint, and all the sound examples work (click on the speaker icon in each slide that has one to hear the examples). Relevant for today are the Introduction, Topic #1 and Topic #2. (We'll get to Topic #3 next week).