Speech Data Annotation for Linguistics Research

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the various methods for processing and annotating audio recordings of natural speech for linguistics research. Types of recordings to be annotated include utterances of isolated words and connected speech in English and other selected languages. Three distinct annotation methods are introduced: conversation transcription for discourse analysis, interlinear analysis annotation in ELAN, and segmentation annotation for acoustic analysis in Praat. Emphasis throughout is on students gaining hands-on experience with each method. This course co-convenes with LING 461 . Graduate students are required to complete an additional task involving a higher level of analysis for their assignments. Level: Graduate