ISCA Archive SpeechProsody 2008
ISCA Archive SpeechProsody 2008

Narrow focus in Brazilian portuguese: spatial and temporal constraints

Luciana Lucente, Plínio A. Barbosa

This paper presents the Brazilian Portuguese intonational annotation system, the ToBiPI system, for which the use of a set of labels integrates a dynamical annotation with some aspects of intonational phonology research paradigm, namely the intonational workshops. The dynamic annotation is based on a function-oriented analysis that takes into account some spatial and temporal constraints such as alignment and rate of falling and rising.