[RNLD] More help with ELAN

[Andrea L. Berez]

Hi Aidan,

Yes. If you want those child tiers to be time-alignable to the exact words
on the recording too, create a linguistic type with the stereotype "Time
Subdivision".

If you don't need the child tiers to be time-alignable to exact words on
the recording, create a linguistic type with the stereotype "Symbolic
Subdivision."

Note that both of these types will completely fill the timeline of the
parent annotations, meaning that you can't have a child tier with some
"empty" time underneath the parent annotation. If that's something you want
-- a child tier with possible time gaps under the parent annotation (say if
you were only creating a special tier for pulling out one of the languages
into its own tier, but not both) -- then you should create a linguistic
type with the stereotype of "Included In".

Hope this helps,
Andrea

--
Andrea L. Berez
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Director, Kaipuleohone UH Digital Ethnographic Archive
Technology editor, *Language Documentation & Conservation*
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~aberez



On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Aidan Wilson <aidan.wilson at unimelb.edu.au>wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> I have yet another question regarding ELAN. I'm trying to annotate my
> recordings for langauge, as the recordings contain a mix of two languages,
> and tagging utterances for whether they're in language x or y is going to
> be very important. The problem is that most of the time, a single utterance
> will contain elements from either language. So without splitting my current
> annotations, I need to figure out a way of having a child tier segment an
> annotation within the segment that the parent tier has. I don't know if
> this makes sense, so here's an example of what I want:
>
>  [ngiya abim basic card arra]
>> [I     have basic card that]
>> [T   ][E             ][T   ]
>>
>
> Is this possible with the different linguistic types and stereotypes
> available?
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Aidan Wilson
>
> School of Languages and Linguistics
> The University of Melbourne
>
> +61428 458 969
> aidan.wilson at unimelb.edu.au
> @aidanbwilson
>
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