Tools rPraat and mPraat

Bořil, Tomáš; Skarnitzl, Radek

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-45510-5_42

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“…Each labelling file was output from MAuS as a Praat textgrid. Each textgrid was compiled and edited using "rPraat" [21] adding five principle tiers (Utterance, Word, Grammatical Category, Syllable number and Phonetic Segment). All utterances were manually checked and hand corrected at a word and phonetic level using Praat [22].…”

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Scaling Processes of Clause Chains in Pitjantjatjara

Defina¹,

Torres²,

Stoakes³

2020

Interspeech 2020

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Clause chains are a syntactic strategy for combining multiple clauses into a single unit. They are reported in many languages, including Korean and Turkish. However, they have seen relatively little focused research. In particular, prosodic features are often mentioned in descriptions of clause chaining, however there have been vanishingly few investigations. Corpus-based studies of the prosody of clause chains in two unrelated languages of Papua New Guinea report that they are typically produced as a sequence of Intonation phrases united by pitchscaling of the L% boundary tones in each clause with only the final, finite, clause descending to a full L%. The present study is the first experimental investigation of the prosody of clause chains in Pitjantjatjara. This paper focuses on one type of clause chain found in the Australian Indigenous language Pitjantjatjara. We examine a set of 120 clause chains read out by three native Pitjantjatjara speakers. Prosodic analysis reveals that these Pitjantjatjara clause chains are produced within a single Intonational Phrase. Speakers do not pause between the clauses in the chain, there is consistent linear downstep throughout the phrase and additionally phrase final lowering occurs at the end of the utterance. This differs from previous impressionistic studies of the prosody of clause chains.

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confidence: 99%

Scaling Processes of Clause Chains in Pitjantjatjara

Defina¹,

Torres²,

Stoakes³

2020

Interspeech 2020

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“…We assessed the accuracy of the segmentation by using the package rPraat 74 to read Praat TextGrid files into R 19 . The TextGrid files contain time stamps of the "true" manual segmentation with the automatic segmentation.…”

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Universal principles underlying segmental structures in parrot song and human speech

Mann

Fitch

et al. 2021

Sci Rep

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Despite the diversity of human languages, certain linguistic patterns are remarkably consistent across human populations. While syntactic universals receive more attention, there is stronger evidence for universal patterns in the inventory and organization of segments: units that are separated by rapid acoustic transitions which are used to build syllables, words, and phrases. Crucially, if an alien researcher investigated spoken human language how we analyze non-human communication systems, many of the phonological regularities would be overlooked, as the majority of analyses in non-humans treat breath groups, or “syllables” (units divided by silent inhalations), as the smallest unit. Here, we introduce a novel segment-based analysis that reveals patterns in the acoustic output of budgerigars, a vocal learning parrot species, that match universal phonological patterns well-documented in humans. We show that song in four independent budgerigar populations is comprised of consonant- and vowel-like segments. Furthermore, the organization of segments within syllables is not random. As in spoken human language, segments at the start of a vocalization are more likely to be consonant-like and segments at the end are more likely to be longer, quieter, and lower in fundamental frequency. These results provide a new foundation for empirical investigation of language-like abilities in other species.

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“…We are reporting results from 292 APs. Data were extracted using the EmuR [18] and R Praat packages [19].…”

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Acoustic correlates of the French Accentual Phrase in Lifou (New Caledonia)

Torres-Orjuela¹,

Fletcher²,

Wigglesworth³

2018

Speech Prosody 2018

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This paper investigates the realization of the Accentual Phrase (AP) in Lifou French by bilingual speakers of Drehu and French. In French prominence is marked within a phrasal domain and the AP represents the lowest tonally marked prosodic constituent. Although still controversial, increasingly, there have been contributions arguing for a further prosodic level, the intermediate phrase (ip) between the AP and the Intonation Phrase (IP). In this study, it is shown that Lifou French uses the same tonal patterns as found for Standard French. Additionally, further evidence for the existence of another prosodic level after the AP is found. However, while in Standard French an increased F0 rise and final vowel lengthening have been shown to mark the ip-boundary, an expanded pitch span represents the more salient cue to mark this in Lifou French.

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Tools rPraat and mPraat

Cited by 45 publications

References 5 publications

Scaling Processes of Clause Chains in Pitjantjatjara

Scaling Processes of Clause Chains in Pitjantjatjara

Universal principles underlying segmental structures in parrot song and human speech

Acoustic correlates of the French Accentual Phrase in Lifou (New Caledonia)

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