ToBI Clinic |
The Psycholinguistics Lab
at the OSU Dept. of Linguistics |
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WINTER 2004 SCHEDULE
Fridays 10:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Center for Cognitive Science conference room (210)
| Date | Sound Files | Text Grid | Description |
| Jan. 16 | Review of simple intonation patterns (See examples at bottom of ToBI Clinic homepage) | ||
| Jan. 23 | annabella2 annabella4 marianna5 |
annabella2 annabella4 marianna5 |
To download, click here. Read the Notes for this week. |
| Jan. 30 | Sound Files | TextGrids | Clicking on either "Sound Files" or "Textgrids" will take you to the folder where this week's utterances are. You can download them directly from there. Read the Notes for this week. |
| Feb. 6 | armani15 | armani15 | "Name that pitch accent." Read the Notes for this week. |
| Feb. 13 | MaryElena1 MaryElena2 |
MaryElena1 MaryElena2 |
Today, we looked at Topic#3 from Jennifer Venditti's Intro to Intonation [ppt] presentation. You can download this from the web (see the Notes for Jan. 23rd for details). We did a fine job transcribing two sentences without the benefit of Praat, and if we can get the original sound files from Jennifer, we can look at them in Praat next week to resolve a few transcription decisions. NB: Original sound files have been linked at left, complete with our ToBI labels. |
| Feb. 20 | radio2 coral1 |
radio2 coral1 |
The goal this week is to listen for phrases. Instead of labeling, listen for how the speaker divides each utterance into smaller groups of words. What are those smaller groups (a.k.a. phrases) and how many words do they consist of? The utterance coral1 is more challenging than the first utterance, radio2. |
| Feb. 27 | Blue1 MaryEllen2 |
Blue1 MaryEllen2 |
Please transcribe both utterances. At this point, you know all the pitch accents, phrase accents and boundary tones you need to know in order to produce a complete transcription for each. |
| Mar. 5 | armani14 E470 Go North |
armani14 E470 Go North |
This week, we will talk about downstep, specifically the downstepped pitch accent !H*. Since I won't be able to prepare for Friday's meeting until the last minute (Thursday, March 4th), we'll look at examples together at the meeting on Friday. So, no homework (my apologies), but I will post the examples that we end up discussing in the boxes to the left, as usual. Read the Notes for this week. Download the .wav files and TextGrids. |
| Mar. 12 | . | . | NO MEETING THIS WEEK. We'll resume again on April 2, 2004, the first Friday of spring quarter. Good luck with your finals and end-of-quarter projects! |
SPRING 2004 SCHEDULE
Fridays 10:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Center for Cognitive Science conference room (210)
| Date | Sound Files | Text Grid | Description |
| Apr. 2 | coffee | . | Welcome back! We are kicking off the spring quarter with a new set of vocal folds. Click on the link at left to download this week's sound files. And, in case you are wondering, Allison really does like coffee. |
| Apr. 9 | . | . | The four utterances from last week are still under discussion for this week. Read the resulting Notes f or this week and last week. |
| Apr. 16 | MaryElena E470 GoNorth |
MaryElena E470 GoNorth |
Break indices are the topic for today - no advance preparation required. Sound files that we discussed are posted at left. Read the Notes for the week. |
| Apr. 23 | beige candy | beige candy | A single utterance for today. This is a recording of one speaker having a conversation with another. We can't hear the other, so th at is why there are a couple of long pauses in this one. Read the discussion Notes from this week. |
| Apr. 30 | slope | slope | This week and next week, we are participating in a ToBI labeling
study.
Please e-mail me your TextGrids (with labels of your choice) before we
discuss them 10:30am today. Thanks!
Read the Notes from this week's discussion. |
| May 7 | curving | curving | Please remember to e-mail me your TextGrids (with labels) for this utterance before 10:30am today. Thanks! |
| May 14 | . | . | NO MEETING TODAY. SunHee Lee is defending her dissertation, 10am-12noon, so we are canceling today's meeting in favor of cheering he r on! |
| May 21 | beige egg clear drum |
beige egg clear drum |
After those last two difficult files, here are a couple of relatively easy ones, just to give ourselves a break. I apologize for not getting them posted before now (Thursday morning, 5/20/04). |
| May 28 | reverse order | reverse order | A slightly longer utterance for today, and faster speech than we are used to! |
| Jun 4 | deal | deal | Ah, the joy of transcribing with little to no f0 contour! |
AUTUMN 2004 SCHEDULE
Fridays 9:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Center for Cognitive Science, Conference Room (rm. 210)
| Date | Sound Files | Text Grid | Description |
| Oct. 22 | Marla_1 random2 WhatIS |
Marla_1 random2 WhatIS |
Welcome back! We'll be getting back into the swing of things with
three short utterances. Please transcribe Marla_1 and random2
(spontaneous speech) in full, but focus on just the boundary
information for WhatIS. The notes for random2 and WhatIS are written in a NOTES tier in the updated textgrids. |
| Oct. 29 | DUgong | DUgong | We're carrying over Marla_1 from last week and finding out what
Elizabeth's been pointing at. The notes for Marla_1 and DUgong are in the updated textgrids. |
| Nov. 5 | State2 DUGONG1 |
State2 DUGONG1 |
Here's one more dugong and a few states for election week. The notes for State2 and DUGONG1 are in the updated textgrids. |
| Nov. 12 | too WHATis1 |
too WHATis1 |
This week we'll start with too, an example of spontaneous speech from the Santa Barbara corpus, and then move on to WHATis1 if time permits. |
| Nov. 19 | . | . | We'll continue working through the too utterance this week and
perhaps even get to WHATis1. The final notes for too are in the updated textgrid. |
| Nov. 26 | gobble gobble | . | No meeting today - Enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday! |
| Dec. 3 | too2 |
too2 |
We'll end the quarter with WHATis1--in the queue since Nov 12--and
we'll do one short spontaneous Santa Barbara
Corpus utterance called too2. The Notes for too2 and WHATis1 this week come as a separate page. Because the notes for WHATis1 focus on the shape of a L* H-H% contour, examples of L* H-H% utterances from the ToBI Guidelines (i.e., manitowoc, made3, names, money) have been added to the Dec. 3 folders. |
WINTER 2005 SCHEDULE
Fridays 9:00 - 9:30 a.m.
Center for Cognitive Science, Conference Room (rm. 210)
| Date | Sound Files | Text Grid | Description |
| Jan. 7 | too_391 | too_391 | Happy New Year! We'll start off the quarter with one more example
of spontaneous speech from the Santa Barbara
Corpus.
The notes for this week are in the updated textgrid. Notice how the speaker under(over?)shoots the low target in the H* L+H* sequence over "the two corners". The low is higher than the preceding high target. |
| Jan. 14 | too_396 | too_396 | Let's continue with more spontaneous speech from the same speaker
as last week. Whew! This is one tough utterance when it comes to finding boundaries and accents. We'll continue this one next week. |
| Jan. 21 | . | . | Read the Notes for the too_396 utterance from this week and last. |
| Jan. 28 | either_977 | either_977 | This week's utterance is minimal, but so is the pitch track. Ear
training, anyone? Read the Notes for this week. |
| Feb. 4 | too_276 | too_276 | Our final TOO utterance for now... |
| Feb. 11 | . | . | We'll continue too_276 this week. Read the Notes for too_276. |
| Feb. 18 | q7whatami | q7whatami | This week's utterance is an example of spontaneous speech from Donna Byron. There are two speakers in the utterance, and they're each seated in front of a computer screen as they work together to navigate a virtual environment. |
| Feb. 25 | . | . | We'll continue q7whatami this week. Read the Notes for q7whatami. |
| Mar. 4 | what_it | what_it | For this utterance we'll focus on just the beginning:
What it amounts to is mutual respect. Read the Notes for what_it. |
| Mar. 11 | no shit_context ohno |
no shit_context ohno |
Every good stimulus recording session tends to elicit a fine
variety of interjections, corrections, pauses, and the like. Our last
session of the quarter celebrates these spontaneous outbursts. For
shit_context, please transcribe only the expletive. The notes for the final session of the quarter are in the updated textgrids. |
Announcing the first on-call
session of the ToBI Clinic for
Spring 2005
Date: Friday, April 15
Time: 9:30-10:00am
Location: Conference Room (rm. 210) at the Center for Cognitive
Science
| Date | Sound Files | Text Grid | Description |
| Apr. 15 | 1.1.aiff | 1.1 | This utterance and textgrid comes in from Kim Silverman, Principal
Research Scientist and Manager of Spoken Language Technologies at
Apple Computer. Read the Notes for 1.1. |