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10 The name of the file you select, here KAB_AM_NARR_03.wav, will appear on the list of “Objects”. You select it (click on it) and choose from

11 If you want to stop the sound playing, press “Escape” on your keyboard. If you want to see the spectrogram, click on ‘spectrum’, ‘show spectrogram

12 Click on Edit A window opens, with multiple lines; from the top: • a line showing the signal in black (you won’t use it much); • a line containi

13 Click on the audio area at the beginning of a segment. Click on the small circle on the vertical line in the desired tier in order to create a

14 A two-tier transcription Praat file, with a ref@SP tier (broad phonetics) and a tmp@SP tier (grammatical words), is about the same complexit

15 the sequence you should type to obtain a schwa in your annotation tier in the Praat textgrid line, type your characters using the trigraphs method

16 3.2.9.3. Favorite Characters in Mac For Mac users, a simpler method consists in defining your list of favorite characters from the character pale

17 The combinations you’ll create for the insertion of phonetic characters are those shown in the AFU table (see section “How the keyboard works (Mic

18 o Go to System preferences > International > Input source > Show keyboard, tick the name of the keyboard you have created, the littl

19 c) Overlaps are not marked as they are visually obvious in the Elan layout. d) Noise and peripheral phenomena are indicated in between b

2 0. Introduction CorpAfroAs is a pilot corpus aiming at providing a structured database of spontaneous and solicited recordings of AfroAsiatic la

20 In Praat, Preferences, check that Text writing Preferences is set to 'UTF-8'. If it isn’t, change it to UTF-8 and write again to Textgri

21 LanguageCode_Author’s Initials_type_num type = conv(ersation) or narr(ation); num = serial number of the file. Importing the model of linguistic

22 ● Operation completed, OK A tier ref@SP-cp was created. If there are 2 speakers: ● Copy, Tier ● select ref@SP1, Next ● once again: select ref@

23 We will just tokenize (i.e. split the words of the prosodic units into individual cells) the grammatical word tier(s) tx@SP into the mot@SP

24 unit they belong to, but they are not correctly related to their real time duration because ELAN just divides the duration of the parent t

25 The « Lexicon » menu allows the choice! Click on the «Lexicon » tab Creating an ELAN lexicon When you choose Create, a file selection window will

26 from the right box to the left and clicking on the >> button. ● Select (click on) the concept in the right box ● Select the corresponding

27 Self-opening of the lexicon To the right of the Lexicon section menu, there is the Linkedfile menu. By default, the checkbox befo

28 Remark that if a tier already exists with the same label as one of those you just enterede during the configure interlinear tiers process, a

29 Affixes To add a new affix in the lexicon, you can right-click the word containing this affix, in the segmentation area, and choose « Insert

3 The text (tx) line is the one that holds the transcription of phonological words. Its purpose is to reflect as closely as possible t

30 In the above example, the word ʔarjabwa presents three possible segmentations. The suffixes -a, -b and -wa found in the lexicon lead to

31 The annotation of the first segment is displayed under it, in the Segmentation area, then the next segment is selected. And so on: a double-click

32 Enter the variant form (-aːn) and select the associated entry (-aːna). Save the record As the parser searches for a match at the level of the lexe

33 It should be noted that this method of giving the parser an ad hoc segmentation for a word, should be avoided as much as possible and only be

34 To open a Parse lexicon for the auto-interlinearize process, choose the Parse menu Parse, Open Parse data Self-loading of a Parse lexicon By defau

35 (FOC1, FOC2, etc.); the resolution of (c) implies that adjectives and verbs be tagged in rx; the resolution of (d) implies that neutralization

36 When feminine gender marking is optional only gloss F when overtly marked (in the example below raː=k can be either F or M). raː=k

37 The aspectual markers of the verbal system, in case of specific patterns of the stem, PFV and IPFV are glossed only once in the ge tier (not also

38 ~ stem reduplication (complete or partial) ~IPFV = clitic boundary =DET < > encloses material in another language (codeswitching) <laval

39 1) A gloss intended to mark a distinction between inter-sentential and intra-sentential CSW. 2) A gloss intended to mark the embedde

4 The comparison between the mot and mb lines makes it possible to pinpoint morphophonological phenomena in the language (variations, all

40 code-switched items cannot be a solution since it is relevant only in certain socio-linguistic conditions (it is relevant for Morocca

41 6.4. Free translation in Elan As the main segment into CorpAfroAs model is the prosodic unit, the free translation of some segments may become sem

42 6.5. Search in Elan You can search a word or a gloss in order to replace it. Once you have found it, you choose the correct occ

43 Before exporting to Toolbox, each tier in ELAN needs to have its 'Participant' parameter set to SP if there is only one speaker; if ther

44 The default name of the toolbox project is Toolbox Project and is displayed at the bottom right of the toolbox window. We suggest renaming it by s

45 Select the folder to which to export the file: e.g. CorpAfroAs\Toolbox and give it a name (it should be the same as the ELAN file, with .txt exte

46 The interlinear process begins by clicking on the interlinear button (or Alt/i). When the dictionary is empty, no word is found, and then each

47 A hyphen is added to the right of the morpheme to indicate that it is a prefix, then the gloss (after the label \ge) and the part of

48 Make sure that the apostrophe is not elsewhere in other boxes (e.g. ‘character to ignore’ or ‘diacritics’...) It is possible to correct the seg

49 Rename the first record by adding an ‘a’ at the end of the reference. Replace the end index \ELANEnd by the one you remember from Praat. Delete th

5 2. Fieldwork 2.1. Recording material Most of the recordings were done with the flashdisk EDIROL by Roland, R-09 wave/mp3 recorder, and a Sennh

50 Look for the Toolbox annotated file by means of the Browse button <...> Shoebox type file: Look for and select the refCorp.typ file (general

51 Coded text: yes Select the text and convert it into a table Table, Convert to table, 5 columns Delete the empty column if necessary Sort the table

6 For conversation each speaker has her/his own recording device and microphone. And it is preferable to restrict the interaction to two spe

7 For Corpafroas, we used the following labels: For Content Type *Genre: all members (NARR, CONV) have ticked “Discourse”. *Subgenre: if not Languag

8 file. We therefore start our transcription/segmentation with Praat, not ELAN. Moreover, Praat files can be used for further studies on intonation,

9 his/her mother-tongue does not. This makes intuitive recognition more difficult for a language which is not the researcher’s mothe