TOBI, continued (continued)

TOBI, continued (continued)

February 2, 2010

Languages!Polish 2

Tagalog 2

Urdu

Spanish

Afrikaans

Korean

Gujarati

Italian

Russian

Swedish

Also:

Perception of palatalization in Irish

Developing phonemic inventory in an 18 month-old

Agenda1. Return homeworks.

2. Questions on course project?

3. The final pieces of the TOBI puzzle.

4. More transcription practice.

5. On Thursday, we will be in Craigie Hall D428.

• (the language lab)

Mystery Solved• The Mystery Tone Language was the Amoy dialect of Min Nan, which is spoken in southern China.

• There are five tones in Min Nan (the mystery language):

High Level 5-5 #3: #10:

Mid Level 3-3 #4: #7:

Low Falling 2-1 #5: #12:

High Falling 5-1 #1: #6: #9:

Low Rising 2-3 #2: #8: #11:

TOBI, so far1. Pitch Accents

• H* and L*

2. Phrase Accents

• H- and L-

3. Boundary Tones

• H% and L%

4. Break Indices

• 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4

5. Downstepping and Upstepping

Bitonal Pitch Accents• In addition to H* and L*, there are three bitonal pitch accents.

• Here are the first two:

• L + H*

• L* + H

• The starred element denotes the tone which is associated with the stressed syllable.

• L + H* = high peak on stressed syllable, preceded by a sharp rise in pitch.

• L* + H = low pitch target on stressed syllable, followed by a sharp rise in pitch.

H* vs. L + H*• Marianna won it.

H*

L + H*

Note: informative vs. contrastive function

L* vs. L* + H• Only a millionaire.

• Marianna made the marmalade.

H* L* + H L- H%

L* L* H-H%

L + H* vs. L* + H• There’s a lovely one in Bloomingdale’s.

L* + H

L + H*

Filling the Gap• Another feature of phrase accents is that they fill in the gap between the nuclear accent and the boundary of the intermediate phrase.

L* + H L- H%

1 0 1 1 4

More Downstepping• Bitonal pitch accents can also undergo downstepping.

L + H* L + !H* L + !H* L-L%

1 1 1 1 1 4

H + !H*• The final pitch accent in the TOBI inventory is H+!H*.

• This one often appears at the beginning of phrases.

Pitch-Accents Round-up• There are five pitch accents:

• H*

• L*

• L + H*

• L* + H

• H + !H*

• The * attaches to stressed syllables.

• The final pitch accent in an intonational phrase is the nuclear accent.

• Generally perceived as more prominent.

Practice Time…https://webdisk.ucalgary.ca/~swinters/public_html/ling441/TOBIlab3.html