You can find information on the label protocol, the naming conventions, and the phoneme labels
here (in Dutch) and
here (some of it in English).
Text types are:
- Fixed: Textual materials read by each speaker
- Variable: Speaker specific textual materials derived from
the unique (informal) story told by each speaker
Speaking styles are:
- Informal: An elicited story about a vacation trip told to an interviewer (face to face)
- Retold: A previously read story (a fixed fairy tale or the vacation trip) retold in an empty room
- Read: A long text read from a cueing screen
- Sentence: Isolated sentences read from a cueing screen
- Pseudo Sentence: Non-sentences, constructed by stringing randomly picked words, read from a cueing screen
- Word: Word lists read from a cueing screen
- Syllable: Syllable lists read from a cueing screen
- Pronunciation: Diagnostic and idiomatic lists
(note: specifying these sub-styles can slow down queries
involving multiple tables)
- ABC: The alphabet read from a cueing screen
- NUM: The numbers from 0-12 read from a cueing screen
- VOW: Isolated vowels read from a cueing screen
- HVD: Vowels in H_D context read from a cueing screen
- VCV: Isolated intervocalic consonants read from a cueing screen
Information on how to use our Web interface to the IFA-corpus PostgreSQL database,
look here.