Correlatore
Correlatore is a programme developed in Tcl/Tk which can be used for the rhythmic analysis of files annotated with Praat (textgrids). It calculates %V, ΔC, ΔV, Varcos, PVIs, CCIs. So, if you wish to carry on research on the acoustic correlates of speech rhythm, you only need to annotate your audio files with Praat: open the TextGrids in Correlatore, you will obtain the values for the correlates and you will be able to build charts with the results (such as the one here, which comes from my PhD thesis).
Correlatore is released under the terms of the GPL license, so you can download it and use it freely. I've spent a considerable amount of time in writing it, so if you publish your research, please quote Correlatore as follows:
Mairano, P. & Romano, A. (2010) Un confronto tra diverse metriche ritmiche usando Correlatore. In: Schmid, S., Schwarzenbach, M. & Studer, D. (eds.) La dimensione temporale del parlato, (Proc. of the V National AISV Congress, University of Zurich, Collegiengebaude, 4-6 February 2009), Torriana (RN): EDK, 79-100.
Below you can download the latest version for Windows, or the multi-platform source files (for the latter you will need to have Tcl/Tk installed - see the documentation). Correlatore does not need to be installed, you simply unzip it and double-click correlatore.exe (or correlatore.tcl if you use the sources). Feel free to send me any suggestion you may have or issues you may find.
NB: You are advised to read the documentation carefully, and in particular the 'Warning' section, where you can find the annotation criteria that need to be followed.
(New - please read) Some people reported that Correlatore cannot read TextGrids generated with new Praat versions: this happens because new versions of Praat use UTF-16 text encoding, which is not supported by Correlatore.
In order to solve this issue, do the following from Praat main menu: select 'Praat', 'Preferences', 'Text writing preferences...', then select UTF-8.
Now you just have to re-open and re-save your TextGrids, they will be readable by Correlatore.
- DOWNLOAD Correlatore 2.3.4 for Windows (for any version of Windows)
- DOWNLOAD Correlatore 2.3.4 source files (for any OS, but you need Tcl/Tk)
Who is using Correlatore?
Here is a list of works for which authors used Correlatore. (NB: if you are a researcher who used it and your article does not appear in this list, feel free to write to me and I will be happy to add your work to the list!)
- C. Gabriel, E. Kireva (2015) Prosodic transfer in learner and contact varieties: Speech rhythm and intonation of Buenos Aires Spanish and L2 Castilian Spanish produced by Italian native speakers. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 36(2), 257-281.
- E. Kireva, C. Gabriel (2015) Rhythmic Properties of a Contact Variety: Comparing Read and Semi-spontaneous Speech in Argentinean Porteño Spanish. In Prosody and Language in Contact (pp. 149-168). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
- E. Kireva, C. Gabriel (2015) Speech rhythm and sentence type: Analyzing the durational properties of Olivenza Portuguese, Olivenza Spanish, and Castilian Spanish. Proc.of ICPhS 2015, August 10–14, Glasgow (UK).
- J. Kittler (2015) Nähesprachliches Italienisch im Ruhrgebiet und in Catania: Vergleichende phonetisch-prosodische Untersuchungen. Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
- J. Brown, E. Matene (2014) Is Speech Rhythm an Intrinsic Property of Language?, Proc. of Interspeech 2014, 14-18 September, Singapore.
- E. Delais-Roussarie, H. Yoo (2014) Rythme et synthèse de la parole: études comparées des patrons rythmiques de différents genres. Nouveaux cahiers de linguistique française, 31, 237-247.
- C. Gabriel, E. Kireva (2014) Speech rhythm and vowel raising in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish. Proc. of Speech Prosody 2014, 20-23 March, Dublin (Ireland).
- C. Gabriel, J. Stahnke, J. Thulke (2014) On the acquisition of French speech rhythm in a multilingual classroom: Evidence from linguistic and extra-linguistic data. SHS Web of Conferences (Vol. 8, pp. 1267-1283). EDP Sciences.
- A. Benet, C. Gabriel, E. Kireva, A. Pešková (2012) Prosodic transfer from Italian to Spanish: Rhythmic properties of L2 speech and Argentinean Porteño. Proc. of Speech Prosody 2012, 22-25 May, Shanghai (China).
- P. Mairano (2011) Rhythm typology: Acoustic and perceptive studies, PhD thesis.
- P. Mairano, A. Romano (2011) Rhythm metrics for 21 languages. Proc. of ICPhS 2011, 17-21 August 2011, Hong Kong (China).
- A. Romano (2010) Speech rhythm and timing: structural properties and acoustic correlates. In S. Schmid, M. Schwarzenbach & D. Studer (Eds.) La dimensione temporale del parlato (pp. 45-75), EDK editore.
And more people have cited it. See here a list of publications that quoted Correlatore.