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Title:Computational support for early elicitation and classification of tone
Bibliographic Citation:Bird, Steven, Lee, Haejoong; 2014-12; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24613.
Creator:Bird, Steven
Lee, Haejoong
Date (W3CDTF):2014-12
Description:Investigating a tone language involves careful transcription of tone on words and phrases. This is challenging when the phonological categories – the tones or melodies – have not been identified. Effects such as coarticulation, sandhi, and phrase-level prosody appear as obstacles to early elicitation and classification of tone. This article presents open source software that can assist with solving this problem. Users listen to words and phrases of interest, before grouping them into clusters having the same tonal properties. In this manner, it is possible to quickly annotate words of interest in extended recordings, and compare items that may be widely separated in the source audio to obtain consistent labelling. Users have reported that it is possible to train one’s ear to pick up on the linguistically salient distinctions. The approach is illustrated with data from Eastern Chatino (Mexico) and Alekano (Papua New Guinea). *This paper is in the series How to Study a Tone Language, edited by Steven Bird and Larry Hyman
National Foreign Language Resource Center
Identifier:Bird, Steven and Haejoong Lee. 2014. Computational support for early elicitation and classification of tone. Language Documentation & Conservation 8: 453—461
978-0-9856211-2-4
Identifier (URI):http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24613
Publisher:University of Hawai'i Press
Rights:Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License
Table Of Contents:Bird.pdf
Bird_nomedia.pdf
Bird audio.zip
Type:Article

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Citation: Bird, Steven; Lee, Haejoong. 2014. University of Hawai'i Press.


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