A two-tier transcription Praat file, with a ref@SP tier (broad phonetics) and a tmp@SP tier
(grammatical words), is about the same complexity to deal with: after importation into
ELAN, you will have to duplicate the tmp tier as an intermediary tx tier. That tx tier will
be tokenized into a mot tier. Then the ref tier will be duplicated into the real tx tier and
the mot tier will be made dependent of it, then the intermediary tx tier will be deleted.
Those last two methods are described on the website (in the TOOLS tab).
3.2.9. Typing Methods
To enter the phonetic transcription in Praat there are three options:
- On PC and Mac, using the Praat trigraphs method (see below)
- On PC, using the AFU keyboard (for more details see the section AFU keyboard)
- On Mac, using the Ukelele keyboard. For more details see the section Ukele keyboard
Click on the segment in the selected tier. A box will open.
Write down the annotated text. To save and leave the editing box, do Ctrl/Enter.
Special characters
We should use IPA whenever it is unproblematic to do so. The full list of characters is to
be decided among each language family.
For Berber and Semitic, we have had a discussion on emphatics and affricates. The
decision for emphatics is to use the traditional under-dotted letters in mot (and possibly
tx) (cf explanation above in section 1), since there is a scientific basis for that decision.
For affricates we decided to use the single IPA character in tx (ex: ts, ʧ, ʤ).
Units with minor break and units with major break
Put a slash (or double slash) at the end of the text of each IU, after a space. In other
terms: / (non terminal) // (terminal) are to appear at the end of a cell containing speech.
Pause cells also have boundary marks. All pauses above 200ms are obligatorily marked
and their duration entered in the corresponding cell.
3.2.9.1. Method using Praat trigraphs (PC and Mac)
In the Textgrid window, open the Help menu on the right, click on Phonetic Symbols, and
open the various lists. Charts appear; under each phonetic symbol, a series of characters
beginning with an anti-slash is given. For instance, under schwa, you can read \sw. This is
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