Course guide
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Description of the course
This course is organized in five main sections: a course guide, an ear training section, an exposition of the Cat_ToBI labeling system, exercises and references.
The COURSE GUIDE section includes the goals of this course and gives a description of it. It then gives a series of links to other websites about the core concepts of intonation and the ToBI systems. You will also find a short glossary with the most important words of the linguistic vernacular about prosody. In the EAR TRAINING section, you will find some exercises to practice sound recognition.
It teaches you how to identify and discriminate between high, low, rising and falling pitch movements. This is the first step before being confronted with the actual intonation patterns of the Cat_ToBI labeling system for Catalan prosody. The next part deals with the Cat_ToBI LABELING SYSTEM .
It first explains its uses and describes how it works.
It then shows you how to label Catalan prosody, with explanations separated into two main parts:
The first part deals with the 5 different levels of prosodic phrasing used in Cat_ToBI, with theoretical explanations and examples for each level.
The second part deals with tonal representation and shows the labels of the pitch accent, boundary tones, and nuclear configurations found in Catalan intonation. Each item is presented in an independent account, showing its phonetic realization, its context(s) of apparition, examples and how to discriminate it from another similar item.
After this, you will find a part consisting of EXERCISES, to practice identification of all of the prosodic elements taken into account by Cat_ToBI: the different levels of prosodic phrasing, pitch accents, boundary tones and nuclear configurations.
Finally, there is a list of REFERENCES about ToBI systems, the AM model and Catalan prosody.
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