unintelligible words/custom symbols/PCC

[amywilder1 at gmail.com]

Thank you for the quick response. This is all very helpful.

Best,
Amy

On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 5:16 AM Yvan Rose <yvan.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Amy,
> Welcome to the PhonBank community, and thank you for your questions. I
> interleave my replies below:
>
> 1- What is the best way to hand an unintelligible word or part of a word.
> (we would not want this to be counted as an error)?
>
>
> There are two main ways:
>
> A) Mark the record as 'excluded'. This will void the record by default for
> all analyses.
> B) In the context of a part-word you may want to keep for analysis, change
> the target to the relevant part of what the word should be.
>
> 2- Is there a way to add your own custom symbols?
>
>
> Not really, as we need valid transcriptions to be able to generate
> analyses. (On this note, if you see a flag to the right of a transcription
> tier, there is something that needs fixing with this transcription.)
>
> But you can probably adapt some of the symbols we already support to
> encode your observations. In this regard, I would need a sense of that the
> use cases might be. Please follow up about this.
>
> 3- When running reports such as PCC, is there a way to have
> voiced/unvoiced cognates not be counted as an error in final position?
> (e.g., /glæsɪs/ have the final s for z not be counted as incorrect?)
>
>
> What I see is we would need options to ignore sound components such as
> 'place', 'manner', and 'voicing' (the latter your use case). Unfortunately
> we don't have this at the moment, but we're taking good note of the idea!
>
> In the meantime, you can add the 'distorted' diacritic to these phones --
> this will mark them as 'correct' by default for analytic purposes.
>
> I hope you find this all useful!!
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Yvan
>
>
>
>
> Thanks for you help!
> Amy Wilder
>
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