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What is this?
Contour Clustering gives you a graphical user interface to automatically get:- time-series f0 measures
- interpolated, extrapolated, smoothed, and error-free f0 contours
- time-series intensity measures
- duration measures
- several speaker-correction methods
- several f0 contour representations (scaled, first derivative, principal components)
- cluster analyses on any of the chosen acoustic measures
- several clustering settings (distance metrics, linkage criteria)
- evaluations of the optimal number of clusters
- data (.csv) for further (manual) analysis, including graphs and tables
What Contour Clustering needs from you:
- a prosodic research question
- segmented speech (.wav/.mp3 and .textgrid)
- R and R Studio installed
Learn more
Download
Complete file package as zip:→ 2024-08 - current (changelog, old versions)
R-scripts (GUI requires R-studio):
~ contour clustering GUI (recommended) - 2024-08
- contour clustering no GUI - 2022-08
Praat script:
- time-series f0 measurements - 2022-04
Cite as:
Kaland, Constantijn. 2023. Contour clustering: A field-data-driven approach for documenting and analysing prototypical f0 contours. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 53(1), 159-188. doi:10.1017/S0025100321000049 [pdf]
Old versions
Complete file package as zip:- 2024-02
- 2023-06
- 2023-05
- 2022-08
- 2022-04
- 2021-08
- 2021-03
Documentation
Manual:~ manual for Praat-script and R-script (recommended)
Additional learning material:
- two-day workshop Methods @ LingLab [Day 1] [Day 2] [OSF repository] - 11-2023
- tutorial - 03-2021
- Papuan Malay scripted noun phrases (article section 2)
- Papuan Malay spontaneous phrases (article section 3) - datafile for tutorial
- Zhagawa scripted tone syllables (article section 4)
R packages:
data.table, dplyr, dtwclust, fda, ggdendro, ggplot2, graphics, Hmisc, Metrics, pracma, proxy, purrr, readr,
readtextgrid, scales, shiny, stats, stringr, TSdist, usedist, utils, wrassp, zoo
Cite as:
Kaland, Constantijn. 2023. Contour clustering: A field-data-driven approach for documenting and analysing prototypical f0 contours. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 53(1), 159-188. doi:10.1017/S0025100321000049 [pdf]
Languages
Contour clustering has been applied to the following languages:
References
Cite as:
Kaland, Constantijn. 2023. Contour clustering: A field-data-driven approach for documenting and analysing prototypical f0 contours. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 53(1), 159-188. doi:10.1017/S0025100321000049 [pdf]
Also applied in:
Lam, Man Yan Priscilla & Chen, Yiya. 2024. Tonal contour clustering in Tongugbe Ewe: a preliminary investigation. Dag van de Fonetiek 2024. Utrecht, The Netherlands. Nederlandse Vereniging voor Fonetische Wetenschappen. [pdf]
Kaland, Constantijn; Steffman, Jeremy & Cole, Jennifer. 2024. K-means and hierarchical clustering of f0 contours. Proc. Interspeech 2024 (1520-1524). Kos, Greece. doi:10.21437/Interspeech.2024-181 [pdf]
Hakim, Jacob. 2024. Using role-playing tasks to document intonational tune prototypes in Nasal, an endangered language of Sumatra. Proc. Speech Prosody 2024 (1175-1179). Leiden, The Netherlands. doi:10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-237 [pdf]
Zahrer, Alexander. 2024. Exploring natural speech intonation of an under-researched Papuan language. Proc. Speech Prosody 2024 (1095-1099). Leiden, The Netherlands. doi:10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-221 [pdf]
Tatár, Csilla; Brennan, Jonathan R.; Krivokapić, Jelena & Keshet, Ezra. 2024. Examining melodiousness in sarcasm: wiggliness, spaciousness, and contour clustering. Proc. Speech Prosody 2024 (677-681). Leiden, The Netherlands. doi:10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-137 [pdf]
Jeon, Hae-Sung; Kaland, Constantijn & Grice, Martine. 2024. Cluster analysis of Korean IP-final intonation. In Proc. Speech Prosody 2024 (1025-1029). Leiden, The Netherlands. doi:10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-207 [pdf]
Albert, Aviad; Kaland, Constantijn; Ellison, T. Mark; Cangemi, Francesco; Winter, Bodo & Grice, Martine. 2024. Harvesting spontaneous speech data from digital reservoirs to study prosody. In Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 19). [pdf]
Björklund, Anna. 2024. Automatic intonational contour clustering in Patwin. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 9(1), 5713. doi:10.3765/plsa.v9i1.5713 [pdf]
Kaland, Constantijn & Grice, Martine. 2024. Exploring and explaining variation in phrase-final f0 movements in spontaneous Papuan Malay. Phonetica, 81(3). doi:10.1515/phon-2023-0031 [pdf]
Steffman, Jeremy; Cole, Jennifer & Shattuck-Hufnagel, Stefanie. 2024. Intonational categories and continua in American English rising nuclear tunes. Journal of Phonetics, 104(101310) . doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101310 [pdf]
Li, Katrina Kechun; Nolan, Francis & Post, Brechtje. 2023. Clustering lexical tones with intonation variation. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) (pp. 87-88). Chinese and Oriental Languages information Procesing Society. [pdf]
Seeliger, Heiko; Lützeler, Anne & Kaland, Constantijn. 2023. The perception of German wh-phrase-final intonation: a contour clustering evaluation. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2023) (pp. 10-14). Singapore. doi:10.21437/TAI.2023-3 [pdf]
Jabeen, Farhat & Wagner, Petra. 2023. Variability in hesitations in Punjabi semi-spontaneous narrative speech: An automatic clustering based analysis. Proc. Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) Workshop 2023, 71-75. doi: 10.21437/DiSS.2023-15 [pdf]
Kaland, Constantijn. 2023. Intonation contour similarity: F0 representations and distance measures compared to human perception in two languages. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154(1), 95–107. doi: 10.1121/10.0019850 [pdf]
Kaland, Constantijn & Ellison, T. Mark. 2023. Evaluating cluster analysis on f0 contours: An information theoretic approach on three languages. In R. Skarnitzl & J. Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 3448–3452). Guarant International. [pdf]
Cole, Jennifer; Steffman, Jeremy; Shattuck-hufnagel, Stefanie & Tilsen, Sam. 2023. Hierarchical distinctions in the production and perception of nuclear tunes in American English. Laboratory Phonology, 14(1), 1–51. doi: 10.16995/labphon.9437 [pdf]
Laméris, Tim Joris; Li, Katrina Kechun & Post, Brechtje. 2023. Phonetic and Phono-Lexical Accuracy of Non-Native Tone Production by English-L1 and Mandarin-L1 Speakers. Language and Speech, 66(4). doi:10.1177/00238309221143719 [pdf]
Babinski, Sarah. 2022. Archival Phonetics & Prosodic Typology in Sixteen Australian Languages. PhD Thesis, Yale University. [pdf]
Seeliger, Heiko & Kaland, Constantijn. 2022. Boundary tones in German wh-questions and wh-exclamatives - a cluster-based approach. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2022 (pp. 27–31). Lisbon, Portugal. doi:10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022-6 [pdf]
Babinski, Sarah & Bowern, Claire. 2022. Automatic categorization of prosodic contours in Bardi. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 7(1) (pp. 5218). doi:10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5218 [pdf]
Kaland, Constantijn; Peck, Naomi; Ellison, T. Mark & Reinöhl, Uta. 2021. An initial exploration of the interaction of tone and intonation in Kera'a. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) (pp. 132-136). Sønderborg, Denmark. doi:10.21437/TAI.2021-27 [pdf]
Kaland, Constantijn. 2020. Contour clustering: a tool for exploring prototypical f0 patterns. Middag van de Fonetiek, Nederlandse Vereniging voor Fonetiek. Online oral presentation. abstract [pdf]
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