This course is intended to be a practical tool for learning how to prosodically label Catalan speech data. It is accessible to a fairly wide audience, without assuming any background in linguistics or speech sciences. It is especially appropriate for undergraduate or graduate students with a background in linguistics (phonology or phonetics), cognitive psychology (psycholinguistics), speech acoustics or music, who wish to learn about the prosody of speech in general (intonation, rhythm, grouping and prominence patterns of spoken utterances), and specifically, Catalan prosody.
The final aim of the Cat_ToBI labeling system is to represent a common analysis of Catalan intonation within the AM model of intonational phonology that takes into account a wide range of data coming from all of the Catalan dialectal varieties.
The intonation contours presented on this website are mostly based on the Central Catalan variety, with some examples of other dialectal varieties.
