Field guide: Layers

This page contains detailed descriptions of annotation layers. For more information about how layers work, and what the columns in the following tables mean, read the layer typology.

Layers in the “temp” project aren’t meaningful for end-users, so they’re not included on this page

On this page
  1. comment
  2. dictionary_phonemes
  3. foll_pause
  4. foll_segment
  5. frequency_from_celex
  6. frequency_in_corpus
  7. lemma
  8. lexical
  9. morphemes
  10. noise
  11. orthography
  12. overlap
  13. part_of_speech
  14. phonemes
  15. pronounce
  16. redaction
  17. segment
  18. speech_rate
  19. stress
  20. syllables
  21. turn
  22. utterance
  23. word

comment

Comments about speech created by original transcribers

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Span Sub-interval True Text English spelling False imported

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dictionary_phonemes

All possible phonemic representations of the word

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Word Complete interval True Phonological DISC False phonology

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foll_pause

Duration of pause (in seconds) following the current word

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Word Complete interval False Numeric Decimal True timing

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foll_segment

Segment or pause following the current segment

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Segment Complete interval False Phonological DISC True phonology

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frequency_from_celex

How often the current word appears in the CELEX English reference corpus

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Word Complete interval True Numeric Count False lexicon

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frequency_in_corpus

How often the current word appears in ‘interview’ and ‘metalinguistic’ transcripts

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Word Complete interval False Numeric Count False lexicon

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lemma

All possible base forms of the word

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Word Complete interval True Text English spelling (lowercase) False lexicon

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lexical

A lexical annotation supplied manually for this word

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Word Complete interval False Text English spelling False imported

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morphemes

All possible ways to break down the current word into morphemes

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Word Complete interval True Text English spelling (lowercase) False lexicon

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noise

Non-speech noises (human or otherwise)

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Span Sub-interval True Text English spelling False imported

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orthography

The word in lowercase letters (without pause markers)

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Word Complete interval False Text English spelling (lowercase) False (none)

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overlap

Whether or not there is more than one speaker speaking in this turn

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Phrase Complete interval False Text Boolean False timing

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part_of_speech

The word’s part(s) of speech

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Word Sub-interval False Text Treebank part-of-speech tags False syntax

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phonemes

Sequence of speech sounds in the word

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Word Complete interval False Phonological DISC True phonology

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pronounce

A pronunciation annotation supplied manually for this word

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Word Complete interval False Phonological DISC False imported

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redaction

Speech redacted from the transcript (e.g., personally identifying information)

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Phrase Complete interval False Text English spelling False imported

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segment

Individual speech sound

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Segment Sub-interval False Phonological DISC True (none)

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speech_rate

Measurement of syllables per second for this utterance (line), skipping over pauses

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Phrase Sub-interval False Numeric Decimal True timing

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stress

Syllable stresses in the word

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Word Sub-interval False Phonological Stress markers True phonology

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syllables

Syllables in the word, including stress, derived from aligned segments

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Word Sub-interval False Phonological DISC True phonology

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turn

Series of uninterrupted utterances from the same speaker

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Phrase Sub-interval False Timing-only (none) False timing

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utterance

Line in the transcript

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Phrase Sub-interval False Timing-only (none) False timing

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word

The word as originally transcribed, including pause/question markers

Scope Alignment Vertical peers Data type Primary notation Alignment-dependent Project
Word Sub-interval False Text English spelling False (none)

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