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Boundary tone selector

Final boundary tones at a break index of level 4
L-
L%
!H%
!H%
H%
H%
LH%
LH%
L!H%
L!H%
HL%
HL%
L!H%
LHL%
Final boundary tones at a break index of level 3
L-
L-
!H%
!H-
H%
H-
LH%
LH-

Labelling system

  • Labelling system
  • System description
  • Prosodic phrasing
    • Level 0
    • Level 1
    • Level 2
    • Level 3
    • Level 4
    • Discriminate levels 0 and 1
    • Discriminate levels 3 and 4
  • Tonal representation
    • Pitch accents
    • Boundary tones
      • Discriminate LH% and L!H%
    • Nuclear configurations

HL%

HL%

HL% is manifested phonetically as a rise and then a fall to a low F0 value.

It is found after high or low pitch accents in requests and in obviousness statements, and in vocatives in Ibizan Catalan.

 

Example: Request

Vine
[Please come]

HL%

 

Example: Obviousness statement

(Home), viuran a Mèrida!
[They're going to live in Mérida (of course)!]

HL%

 

Example: Ibizan Catalan vocative

Bàrbara!
[Bàrbara!]

HL%

Cat_ToBI training materials team

This website was elaborated by GrEPG (Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group).

Coordinators

Pilar Prieto  (ICREA-UPF) 

Maria del Mar Vanrell  (UIB) 

Paolo Roseano  (UNED) 

Lourdes Aguilar  (UAB) 

 

Working team

Joan Borràs-Comes

Verònica Crespo

Carme de-la-Mota

Rafèu Sichel-Bazin

Jill Thorson

Web citation:

Prieto, P., Vanrell, M.M., Roseano, P., De-la-Mota, C., & Aguilar, L. (2024) Cat_ToBI Traning Materials. Web page: Cat_ToBI Training Materials < https://cat-tobi.upf.edu > [Accessed Date]
  

References about the Cat_ToBI labelling system

Roseano, P., Vanrell, M.M., & Prieto, P. (2024). Entonació i transcripció. In C. Pons, F. Torres-Tamarit & M.M. Vanrell (Eds.), La fonologia del català. Editorial Tirant lo Blanch.

Vanrell, M.M., & Prieto, P. (2024). Agrupació prosòdica i accentuació a nivell de frase. In C. Pons, F. Torres-Tamarit & M.M. Vanrell (Eds.), La fonologia del català. Editorial Tirant lo Blanch.

Prieto, P., Borràs-Comes, J., Cabré, T., Crespo-Sendra, V., Mascaró, I., Roseano, P., Sichel-Bazin, R., & Vanrell, M.M. (2015). Intonational phonology of Catalan and its dialectal varieties. In S. Frota & P. Prieto (Eds.), Intonation in Romance (pp. 9-62). Oxford University Press.   

Prieto, P. (2014). The Intonational Phonology of Catalan. In S.-A. Jun (Ed.), Prosodic Typology II (pp. 43-80). Oxford University Press.   

Escudero, D., Aguilar, L., Vanrell, M.M., & Prieto, P. (2012). Analysis of inter-transcriber consistency in the Cat_ToBI prosodic labelling system. Speech Communication 54(4), 566-582.   

Prieto, P., & Cabré, T. (Coord.) (2007-2012) Atles interactiu de l'entonació del català. Web page: Atles interactiu de l'entonació del català < https://prosodia.upf.edu/atlesentonacio >

Prieto, P., Borràs-Comes, J., & Roseano, P. (Coord.) (2010-2014). Interactive Atlas of Romance Intonation. Web page: Interactive Atlas of Romance Intonation < https://prosodia.upf.edu/iari >

Aguilar, L., de-la-Mota, C., Prieto, P. (Coord.) (2009-2024). Guia multimèdia de la prosòdia del català. Web page: Guia multimèdia de la prosòdia del català < https://guies-prosodia.upf.edu/ca >

 
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