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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