Ear training      

Listening

 

Exercises

1- Pitch identification

2- Pitch discrimination

3- Pair sounds ordering

4- Pitch identification in context: counting sounds

5- Pitch discrimination in context: locating sounds

 

Solutions

 

Ear training

This section is to practice tonal identification of and discrimination between high, low, rising and falling pitch movements. This is the first step before being confronted with the actual intonation patterns of the Sp_ToBI labeling system for Spanish prosody.

First listen to the different pitch movements to get used to them, and then you can practice with the exercises.

 

High tone

This is a steady high sound.
Listen to it once:

Listen to it several times:

 

Low tone

This is a steady low sound.
Listen to it once:

Listen to it several times:

 

Rising tone

This is a rising sound.
Listen to it once:

Listen to it several times:

 

Falling tone

This is a falling sound.
Listen to it once:

Listen to it several times: