Tutorials

 

Guide to Annotation with PoLaR (GAP)

Organizers:

Byron Ahn (Princeton University)

Nanette Veilleux (Simmons University)

Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel (MIT)

Alejna Brugos (Boston University)

This tutorial will familiarize participants with a new prosodic annotation system: PoLaR (Points Levels and Ranges). The primary goal of this tutorial is to provide participants with hands-on experience in PoLaR-labelling speech data from mainstream American English, which will enable them to PoLaR-label data from a variety of different languages, sources and contexts.
PoLaR is a new system of prosodic annotation (see https://www.polarlabels.com/), developed to facilitate the labelling of individual prosodic characteristics and cues (thereby decomposing phonological labels such as H* or L-L% into their more atomic phonological and acoustic components). In addition to isolating particular prosodic qualities, PoLaR is intended as a system that can be applied to any register, dialect, or language. In fact, PoLaR may be useful for capturing and analyzing (potentially systematic) variability, both within and across various categories in phonological, semantic/pragmatic, and/or sociolinguistic domains.

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