Data for: Sound, structure and meaning: The bases of prominence ratings in English, French and Spanish

Three Excel spreadsheets contain prominence rating data and accompanying word-level phonological, syntactic, discourse and acoustic properties from a prominence rating study of English, French and Spanish. Prominence ratings obtained from untrained raters, for samples of conversational speech in English, French and Spanish. Spreadsheets are organized with each word from the speech excerpt presented on a separate row of the spreadsheet, with acoustic measures, part of speech, and frequency, and individual raters’ prominence ratings specified in columns. The spreadsheets include legends for all variable names, and information about acoustic measures calculated in the spreadsheet. The methods by which these data were obtained are described in the related research article (Cole, Hualde, Smith, Eager, Mahrt, Napoleão de Souza, Journal of Phonetics, in press). This work was supported by a grant to Jennifer Cole, José I. Hualde and Caroline Smith from the National Science Foundation [BCS 1251343 and 1251134].本数据集包含三份Excel电子表格，涵盖针对英语、法语和西班牙语开展的语音凸显度评分研究的相关数据，以及配套的词级音系、句法、语篇与声学特征。该研究的凸显度评分由未经专业训练的标注员完成，所用样本均为上述三种语言的会话语音片段。每份电子表格以行对应语音片段中的单个词汇，列则设置声学测量指标、词性、词频以及每位标注员的凸显度评分等字段。电子表格中附带所有变量名的说明，以及表格内计算的声学测量指标相关信息。本数据集的采集方法详见已被《语音学杂志（Journal of Phonetics）》录用待刊的相关研究论文（作者：Cole、Hualde、Smith、Eager、Mahrt、Napoleão de Souza）。 本研究受美国国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation）资助项目（编号：BCS 1251343与BCS 1251134）支持，资助方为Jennifer Cole、José I. Hualde及Caroline Smith。