Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 14:41:15 -0400
From: Mary Beckman <mbeckman@ling.osu.edu>
To: Eun Jong Kong <ejkong@ling.osu.edu>, Fangfang Li <cathy@ling.osu.edu>,
	Kathleen Hall <kchall@ling.osu.edu>,
	Kirk Baker <kbaker@ling.osu.edu>, Ila Nagar <nagar@ling.osu.edu>,
	davis.1981@osu.edu, syrika.2@osu.edu, slocum.74@osu.edu,
	Helena Riha <riha@ling.osu.edu>, dilley.28@osu.edu,
	Mary Beckman <mbeckman@ling.osu.edu>
Subject: Re: Assignment 3

Hi Ila, 

You're probably not the only one who is a little confused, because 
I just looked in the Exercise3 directory and see that I didn't put 
the recap of what to do there.  Here it is:

First look at the adult productions and try to describe what 
"the target sound" is.  To make it most helpful for the next 
step, you probably will want to couch your description at two 
levels -- a prosey description (which may or may not refer to 
a "close phonetic transcription") and a more quantitative 
description of some sort (such as a schematic diagram of the 
F1/F2 or something like that). 

Second, describe each of the children's productions that Fangfang 
identified as difficult to transcribe, making your description at
two levels, as describe above.  If you find yourself spending 
more than 10 minutes on a token, stop working on it, and relegate 
your treatment of it to the third part.  

Third, as you work on part 2, keep track of difficulties you 
ran into (e.g., "I couldn't for the life of me figure out what 
to do to track the F2 in token no ....") and things you tried 
to overcome those difficulties.    

What to turn in to me tomorrow night:

For each target type, a concise summary of the relevant things 
you found out or decided or noted in parts 1, 2, 3.  This summary 
may include TextGrid files, but it need not do so unless you find 
that the most convenient way to do something in the three parts 
just described. 

Hope this helps,
Mary

On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:27:34PM -0400, nagar@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote:
> Hi Mary,
> 
> I have a questions regarding Assignment 3. I know we have gone over this in 
> class but I am little confused as to what exactly we are suppose to do. 
> Should we compare the adult tokens for vowels and compare them to the child 
> tokens and do a transcription based on that?
> 
> Ila