#PRAAT NASALIZED VOWELS SOFTWARE#

“1” = target sound pronounced in a manner which is intermediate between native and strong non-native accent (e.g., pronouncing / ð/ as a dental plosive or / æ/ as ).“0” = target sound pronounced with a strong Czech accent (or your native accent).If your pronunciation of the given sound is native-like American, enter “2 Am” instead of “2”. The standard against which you compare your pronunciation is Standard British English. “2” = native-like realization of the target sound.The vowels and the three consonants will be evaluated on the following scale: Then specify your evaluation in the newly created point. You will evaluate aspiration in paragraph 7.įor each evaluated sound, insert a point into the evaluation tier by clicking into the little circle at the top of the tier (or as described on the Working in Praat page). Fortis plosives / p t k/, regarding their aspiration.You will evaluate these consonants in paragraphs 3 and 6. The dental fricatives / θ ð/ and the velar nasal / ŋ/.You will evaluate your vowels in paragraphs 2 and 4. You will therefore have to change some vowels to their British values, especially / ɒ/ which is usually / ɑː/ in AmE (e.g., soft). Please be aware that the automatic aligner “speaks” American English. The vowels which correspond to / e æ ɒ ə/ in Standard British English.You will be evaluating three kinds of speech sounds: In the dialogue window which pops up, enter “2” for Position, and “evaluation” for Name. To do this, click on Tier – Add point tier… in the Editor window. First, create a new point tier which will be called “evaluation”. Once you’ve prepared all the sounds and TGs, you can start working on the analysis. the word years transcribed as / jəz/, the word of as / ʌv/, or the as / ðʌ/. In addition, the aligner may produce curious (and faulty) transcriptions of some words, e.g. Please add the missing word(s), replace any text in capitals with small type, and shift word boundaries if needed. an uncommon name), it skips it and writes all subsequent text in capital letters. unknown word: if the algorithm encounters an unknown word (e.g.You can do the same thing with your hesitations or any other interruptions of the flow of speech. long pause: just insert a new boundary, thus creating an empty interval, and shift the relevant boundaries accordingly.Therefore, before doing any other work, go through all files and see whether there are any “problems”. It may occasionally make mistakes which must be corrected manually. The automatic aligner which marks the boundaries of words and segments is not perfect. Do not rename any of the files (specifically, do not add things like 'final', 'evaluated' or anything to the file name or extension). You will only be changing, saving and sending to us the TGs. Please do not make any changes to the sound files – you only open them, never save them. You can open the sounds and TGs in Praat (if you do not know how, see Working in Praat).

It will be cut into smaller pieces (paragraphs) that can be handled more conveniently, and TextGrids (.TextGrid files) will be sent along with these.

You will receive your recording (.wav files) by email within three weeks from the recording session.

#PRAAT NASALIZED VOWELS SOFTWARE#

Before you start, make sure you have downloaded and familiarized yourselves with the Praat software (see Working in Praat).

Praat nasalized vowels