Calendar

The calendar below provides information on the lecture sessions for the course. Topics for each session were based on the chapters in the ToBI tutorial.

LEC # CHAPTERS TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Chapter 1.0

Chapter 2.0

Chapter 2.1
Introduction, Overview and Some Basics

The ToBI Tutorial

A First Example, Introducing the Labels: H*, L-L%, 0, 1, and 4
Exercises for chapter 2.1 assigned
2 Chapter 2.2

Chapter 2.3
Adding to the Inventory: L* and H-H%

Two Accents in an Intonational Phrase
Exercises for chapters 2.2 and 2.3 assigned
3 Chapter 2.4

Chapter 2.5
Other Full Intonational Phrase Boundary Tone Combinations: H-L% and L-H%

Pitch Accents with More than One Tone: Bi-tonal Accents L+H* and L*+H
Exercises for chapters 2.4 and 2.5 assigned
4 Chapter 2.6 Relationships among Pitch Accents within a Phrase: !H* Exercises for chapter 2.6 assigned
5 Chapter 2.7 More on Downstep: Bi-tonal Pitch Accents with a Downstepped H Element (!H) Exercises for chapter 2.7 assigned
6 Chapter 2.8

Chapter 2.9

Chapter 2.12
Intermediate Intonational Phrases: 3 Breaks and Phrase Accents

The Downstepped High Phrase Accent: !H-L% and !H-

Uncertainty in Labelling
Exercises for chapters 2.8 and 2.9 assigned
7 Chapter 2.10

Chapter 2.11
Break Index 2

Labelling Disfluency: The p Diacritic (And the %r Tone Label)
Exercises for chapter 2.11 assigned
Appendix 1 Straight-line Approximations for Final-pitch-accent/Phrase-tone/Boundary-tone Combinations
Appendix 2 Praat Script to Load Multiple Files