Catalan Language
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This chapter describes the linguistic resources included in the file
cat.zip of the lang folder.
List of phonemes
Consonant Plosives
| SPPAS | IPA | Description | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| p | p | voiceless bilabial | pala |
| b | b | voiced bilabial | bala, via |
| t | t | voiceless alveolar | tela |
| d | d | voiced alveolar | donar |
| k | k | voiceless velar | cala |
| g | g | voiced velar | gala |
Consonant Fricatives
| SPPAS | IPA | Description | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| D | ð | voiced dental | cada |
| G | ɣ | voiceless velar | alga, mages |
| f | f | voiceless labiodental | fals |
| s | s | voiceless alveolar | si, sala |
| z | z | voiced alveolar | desde |
| S | ʃ | voiceless postalveolar | caixa |
| Z | ʒ | voiced postalveolar | mújol |
| v | v | voiced labiodental | va, vol |
| T | θ | voiceless dental | circus |
Consonant Nasals
| SPPAS | IPA | Description | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| m | m | bilabial | mena |
| n | n | alveolar | nena |
| J | ɲ | palatal | any |
| N | ŋ | voiced velar | lingot, lingual |
Consonant Liquids
| SPPAS | IPA | Description | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| l | l | alveolar lateral | líquid |
| L | ʎ | palatal lateral | llamp |
| r | r | alveolar trill | carro |
| 4 | ɾ | alveolar flap | cara |
Semivowels
| SPPAS | IPA | Description | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| j | j | voiced palatal | iaia, naciós, iogurt |
| w | w | voiced labiovelar | veu, veuran |
Vowels
| SPPAS | IPA | Description | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| E | ɛ | open-mid front unrounded | sec, veça |
| a | a | open front unrounded | sac |
| O | ɔ | open-mid back rounded | soc |
| o | o | close-mid back rounded | sóc |
| e | e | close-mid front unrounded | séc, cec |
| i | i | close front unrounded | sic, ric |
| u | u | close back rounded | suc |
| @ | ə | schwa | contra, estada |
| U | ʊ | near-close near-back rounded | òpols |
Affricates
| SPPAS | IPA | Description | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| dZ | d͡ʒ | voiced postalveolar | metge |
| tS | t͡ʃ | voiceless postalveolar | cotxe |
Fillers
| SPPAS | Description |
|---|---|
| laugh | laughter |
| noise | noises, unintelligible speech |
| dummy | un-transcribed speech |
Lexicons
All Catalan lexicons are (c) Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France:
cat.vocabcontains a list of 94k different words;cat.replallows to convert symbols and abbreviations into a text form.
All of them are distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Help is welcome to create a
cat_num.replallowing SPPAS to convert numbers to their written form.
Pronunciation dictionary
The catalan pronunciation dictionary was downloaded in 2014 from the Ralf catalog of dictionaries for the Simon ASR system at http://spirit.blau.in/simon/import-pls-dictionary/. It was then converted (format and phoneset) by Brigitte Bigi. Some new words were also added and phonetized manually by Eva Bosch i Roura. New entries were added from observed pronunciations in Glissando corpus.
It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Acoustic Model
The acoustic model was trained from Glissando corpus. It is
distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public
License. It was created using a Python script available in
the SPPAS package: acmtrain.py.
We address special thanks to Juan-Maria Garrido for giving us access to the Glissande corpus:
GARRIDO, J. M. - ESCUDERO, D. - AGUILAR, L. -CARDEÑOSO, V. - RODERO, E. - DE-LA-MOTA, C. - GONZÁLEZ, C. - RUSTULLET, S. - LARREA, O. - LAPLAZA, Y. - VIZCAÍNO, F. - CABRERA, M. - BONAFONTE, A. (2013). Glissando: a corpus for multidisciplinary prosodic studies in Spanish and Catalan, Language Resources and Evaluation, DOI 10.1007/s10579-012-9213-0.