Download

Complete file package as zip:
2024-02 - current (changelog, old versions)

R-scripts (GUI requires R-studio):
~ contour clustering GUI (recommended) - 2024-02
- contour clustering no GUI - 2022-08

Praat script:
- time-series f0 measurements - 2022-04

Cite as:

Kaland, Constantijn. 2021. Contour clustering: A field-data-driven approach for documenting and analysing prototypical f0 contours. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. doi:10.1017/S0025100321000049 [pdf]

Old versions

Complete file package as zip:
- 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, ggdendro, ggplot2, graphics, Hmisc, Metrics, pracma, proxy, purrr, readr,
readtextgrid, scales, shiny, stats, stringr, TSdist, usedist, utils, wrassp, zoo

Cite as:

Kaland, Constantijn. 2021. Contour clustering: A field-data-driven approach for documenting and analysing prototypical f0 contours. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. doi:10.1017/S0025100321000049 [pdf]

Languages

Contour clustering has been applied to the following languages:

Language Unit of analysis Paper(s)
American English words Cole et al., 2023 Steffman et al., 2024
Bardi phrases Babinski, 2022 Babinski & Bowern, 2022
Burarra phrases Babinski, 2022
Cantonese syllable rhymes Li et al., 2023
Dalabon phrases Babinski, 2022
German phrases Kaland & Ellison, 2023 Seeliger & Kaland, 2022
Gija phrases Babinski, 2022
Gunnartpa phrases Babinski, 2022
Gunwinggu phrases Babinski, 2022
Kayardild phrases Babinski, 2022
Kera'a words Kaland et al., 2021
Kunbarlang phrases Babinski, 2022
Malak Malak phrases Babinski, 2022
Mandarin Chinese words Laméris et al., 2023
Murrinhpatha phrases Babinski, 2022
Ngan’gi phrases Babinski, 2022
Papuan Malay (noun) phrases Kaland & Ellison, 2023 Kaland, 2021
Punjabi hesitations Jabeen & Wagner, 2023
Wanyjirra phrases Babinski, 2022
Warlpiri phrases Babinski, 2022
Warnman phrases Babinski, 2022
Yan-nhangu phrases Babinski, 2022
Yidiny phrases Babinski, 2022
Zhagawa syllables Kaland & Ellison, 2023 Kaland, 2021

References

Cite as:
Kaland, Constantijn. 2021. Contour clustering: A field-data-driven approach for documenting and analysing prototypical f0 contours. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. doi:10.1017/S0025100321000049 [pdf]

Also applied in:
Steffman, Jeremy; Cole, Jennifer & Shattuck-Hufnagel, Stefanie. 2024. Intonational categories and continua in American English rising nuclear tunes. Journal of Phonetics. 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. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) (pp. 5-6). Chinese and Oriental Languages information Procesing Society. [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, 0(0). 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]

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