Re: labelling

Sarah Hawkins (sh110@cam.ac.uk)
Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:30:48 +0100 (BST)

Cambridge replies:
>
> I've been doing my best with the labelling... Inevitably the odd nit-picky
> query comes up. Here's one you'll all have encountered relating to the /D/
> in jh0002.
>
> It seemed to me (you may disagree, but please answer as if you DID agree!)
> that this was entirely devoiced, i.e. onset of voicing coincided with
> beginning of vowel. In such a case, do you want to mark the segment
> boundary as "D_0" *as well as* "D"?
We think the label should be D_0.
There would be no D alone in these cases.
This solution loses the neat hierarchical organisation of having the "end
of the phone" marked by a single letter. The criterion for the "end" will
have to be
(i) the RIGHTMOST label for the phone
except that where there's more than one possible ending, it will
be
(ii) the rightmost label for the phone that does not contain _#

Note: I (Sarah) *think/hope* that this convention has an added advantage:
you can of course get voiced and then voiceless /z/, for example. On
current criteria, these should be marked z ...... z_0. (not z_v ......
z_0 , because z implies voiced). If the end of the phone is the rightmost
label (with proviso (ii) above), then using z ..... z_0 is not a problem.
(It is a problem if z means end of phone, as well as voiced.)
However, others may disagree, and if enough do, then we should adopt the
other solution (that a single phone always means end of phone, if there is
no single phone, follow (i) and (ii) above, and things like partially
devoiced frics are marked z_v ..... z_0).
Opinions?

In other cases, if (say) a voiced
> fricative actually *is* both voiced and fricative throughout, can we simply
> give it the default label and not worry about sub-segments?
yes

> When marking stop-closures, do you want "tc" or "t_c" (instructions have
> both)? Dead trivial but we might as well be consistent.
sorry: t_c is correct

> When we've done the files we're all doing, I'd like to be able to compare
> notes before we embark on the UCL-only ones.
good idea

hope this helps

Sarah

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