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Day 4 - Data Preparation

Today was a pretty relaxed day. Deepam and I didn’t have much to do, so I slept in really late (I’m talking 11pm) which was kind of necessary after long days. I say as I’m writing this at 2am… In the afternoon Team Palatalization went off to do fieldwork at a participant’s house in Ljubljana, and Wenxuan (vowel harmony) had a participant over at our house to do some recording. We didn’t realize the mic was so sensitive, but it was such high quality that every little thing in the house could be heard. Deepam and I were just sitting in the kitchen doing whatever but we were too noisy so got kicked out… Peter told us to go for a walk or something for an hour and a half lol. So, we found a cafe! And made the best of it.

It was cute and nice, despite being 35 degrees outside, so we stayed there and got a tiny bit of work done before coming back home. Again, the afternoon was a lot of sitting around relaxing and sort of doing work? but not too much. We were making nonce words to prepare our stimuli for the fieldwork on Saturday which was nice to get out of the way! I realize maybe I should talk a bit more about our project here, rather than just what we do in general… so the nonce words look something like this:

This involved keeping the vowels the same and changing the surrounding consonants to get various words that might exhibit different results - consonants that are more likely to be nasalized were closest to nasal vowels (marked with the ~), and those less likely were farther away, and we moved these around a bit. Peter will tell us which ones seem unnatural, even for nonce words, and we can remove these! I was also segmenting waveforms from recordings from last year - this was looking at the spectrograms and waveforms, dividing them into each segment that was pronounced, and annotating which ones were nasal or not. You can tell because the upper channel shows nasality (while the lower one is oral). We segment it based on looking at the spectrogram and where the lines in it are and how dark they are! They are all different depending on what segment it is, even which vowels. It’s fun to read them!

It’s a lot of work, especially when each speaker has 50-100 words repeated twice, and there’s 6 speakers to get through eventually, but I really like acoustic phonetics so it’s okay!! Also a lot of the speakers already have 1 repetition segmented and annotated so it’s not that bad. All in the name of linguistics!

So after getting some of that done, all of us except Team Palatalization went out for dinner, with Peter’s son Juri too. We intended to go for pizza but couldn’t find a pizza place, and found a Chinese restaurant instead! Wenxuan was super excited, she got to speak to the owners and staff in Mandarin and said the food was pretty good. We got fried vegetables and noodles, vegetable dumplings, and mapo tofu. Juri also got a whole plate of pork dumplings for himself. It was so tasty!!

After dinner we came home and did a bit more work but everyone was pretty tired so it was a lot of talking. I busted out the card game Set so we played that a bit but ended up chatting most of the time. Andrea and Rachel are currently still doing work… at 2:30am.. when they have to get up at like 5:30, so I feel really bad for them. And it’s not really work anyone else can help with. This will be Deepam and I tomorrow night probably though… So tomorrow’s post might end up being late too.

In any case, I’m excited to see what fieldwork holds for us. First we are going to Mostec on Saturday to continue the work from last years team, but then next week we will go to Austria to gather data on the Podjuna dialect.