Transcribing Prosodic Structure of Spoken Utterances with ToBI
As taught in: January IAP 2006
The waveform, f0 contour, spectrogram and the first four tiers for the utterance banana in one of the chapter tutorials. (Image by Dr. Nanette Veilleux.)
Instructors:
Dr. Nanette Veilleux
Prof. Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel
Alejna Brugos
MIT Course Number:
6.911
Level:
Course Features
Course Highlights
This course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month.
Course Description
This course presents a tutorial on the ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) system, for labelling certain aspects of prosody in Mainstream American English (MAE-ToBI). The course is appropriate for undergrad or grad students with background in linguistics (phonology or phonetics), cognitive psychology (psycholinguistics), speech acoustics or music, who wish to learn about the prosody of speech, i.e. the intonation, rhythm, grouping and prominence patterns of spoken utterances, prosodic differences that signal meaning and phonetic implementation.
