Mergen corpus

<b>People involved</b><br>This corpus was created by Aidan Winberry in 2020 from a recording of Raisa Alekseevna Beldy reading<br>the text of a Nanai fairy-tale ”Mergen ningman”. The recording was made by Vasily Kharitonov.<br><b>Annotation scheme</b><br>The information about Nanai phonemes is taken from (Ko &amp; Yurn, 2011).<br><b>Coding scheme</b><br>The sounds and phonemes are represented by their IPA symbols in Unicode.<br>The text of the fairy-tale is provided in Cyrilic Nanai orthography. Nanai writing system is nearly phonemic so a Latin transcription layer would simply copy the phonemic tier in IPA.<br>In several segments the sound is corrupted by background music; in this case the annotation on phonemic and phonetic level is omitted.<br><b>Annotation quality</b><br>Annotations were made without consulting with the dictionaries. All phonemes and allophonic variants<br>are marked aurally.<br>Diphthongs are not thoroughly marked.<br>The “Words” tier follows the text of the fairy-tale while the “Phonemes” and “Sounds” tiers represent<br>what is actually being said instead. Several utterances end with an ellipsis which marks correcting slips<br>of tongue. <br>