TY - JOUR

T1 - Principles of the St. Petersburg Phonological School in Speech Corpora Design

AU - Skrelin , Pavel

AU - Kachkovskaia, Tatiana

AU - Kocharov, Daniil

AU - ЕвEvdokimova, Vera

AU - Kochetkova, Ulyana

PY - 2023/6/1

Y1 - 2023/6/1

N2 - The paper discusses the main principles in designing and annotating speech corpora within the framework of the Saint Petersburg phonological school, and provides examples of using corpus data in phonetic research. One of the major principles that we follow is to analyse the speech material at all levels: from segmental to intonational, including speech disfluencies. During segmental phonetic annotation, we suggest listening to each speech sound in isolation (without knowing its context) and relying on spectrographic data. At the syllabic tier, it is crucial to reflect resyllabification. During prosodic annotation, we suggest to rely on listener’s perception of the intonation pattern first, then analyse the actual melodic curves. A speech corpus with multi-level annotation that follows these principles is a valuable source of phonetic data — as segmental and prosodic factors are in constant interaction with each other, and one cannot analyse units of one annotation tier without reference to other tiers.

AB - The paper discusses the main principles in designing and annotating speech corpora within the framework of the Saint Petersburg phonological school, and provides examples of using corpus data in phonetic research. One of the major principles that we follow is to analyse the speech material at all levels: from segmental to intonational, including speech disfluencies. During segmental phonetic annotation, we suggest listening to each speech sound in isolation (without knowing its context) and relying on spectrographic data. At the syllabic tier, it is crucial to reflect resyllabification. During prosodic annotation, we suggest to rely on listener’s perception of the intonation pattern first, then analyse the actual melodic curves. A speech corpus with multi-level annotation that follows these principles is a valuable source of phonetic data — as segmental and prosodic factors are in constant interaction with each other, and one cannot analyse units of one annotation tier without reference to other tiers.

KW - phonetics

KW - phonology

KW - speech corpus

KW - Speech annotation

KW - St. Petersburg phonological school

UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371705881_Principles_of_the_St_Petersburg_Phonological_School_in_Speech_Corpora_Design

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/5679d1d3-0a4c-3859-921e-480b15092d03/

U2 - 10.1590/2176-4573e55822

DO - 10.1590/2176-4573e55822

M3 - Article

VL - 18

SP - 205

EP - 226

JO - Bakhtiniana

JF - Bakhtiniana

SN - 2176-4573

IS - 2

ER -