Scripts
Contingency table maker This perl script takes a list of consonant pairs and creates a co-occurrence table.Annotation helper This praat script opens a sound file in a folder, creates a textgrid tier for you, waits until you're done labeling, and once you hit "Complete" button, it saves the textgrid file, and opens a new file and loops until you're done.
Equalizing amplitude This praat script adjusts the amplitude of all files in a folder.
Scale peak This praat script scales peak of all files in a folder.
Mono converter This praat script converts all stereo sounds into mono sounds.
Duration getter This praat script takes all the textgrid files in a folder and gets duration of all labelled intervals. (This is based on the script that Mietta Lennes originally wrote.)
F0 min max getter This praat script takes all the files in a folder, and for all intervals, it takes the F0 maximum, and F0 minimum preceding the maximum and following the maximum. (This is based on the script that Matsuura Toshio originally wrote.)
Intensity min max getter This praat script takes all the files in a folder, and for all intervals, it takes the average intensity, minimal intensity, its time, maximal intensity and its time.
A database of sonorantal words in Japanese
Everybody who trys to make up sentences for an experiment designed to look at intonational patterns faces a challenge: we need to use words that have lots of sonorants in them. Obstruents disrupt intonational patterns, so they should be avoided as much as possible. Building on my projects with UMass colleagues, I have complied a database for Japanese words in which the first two syllables are all sonorants. They are sorted by accentedness, solely judged by my intuition (I am a native speaker of Tokyo Japanese).The placement of accents has been judged by me, a native speaker of Tokyo Japanese, but please do check with your speakers before recording. Please report any mistakes or unnotated variability in accent placements. You're of course always welcome to contribute to this database.
Nouns, Verbs