[Corpora-List] corpus based acoustic study

John K Pate j.k.pate at sms.ed.ac.uk
Tue Jul 26 20:15:38 UTC 2011


Hi Farhat,

> i am working on syllabification in pakistani english. i intend to
> conduct an acoustic study of the use of repair strategies used by
> pakistani speakers. i will use PRAAT to detect the presence or absence
> of epenthetic vowel or consonant in consonant clusters. suggestions
> and observations in this regard are highly welcome. 

How much are you planning to annotate? For more than just a few dozen,
you might want to use a script to help out, such as the Pauline Welby's
script for labelling vowel boundaries:

http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~welby/PRAAT/label-vowel.praat

It should be straightforward to adapt this script to your particular
needs.

John


==
John K Pate
Student, PhD Informatics
The University of Edinburgh
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/


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