Welcome to the Dinka Prosody Data Collection.

Some of the Dinka speakers whose speech is included in this resource:

In its current form, the collection comprises data on the Luanyjang dialect of Dinka. These data have been elicited in the context of the Nilotic Prosody research project. This project focuses on the rich suprasegmental system of Dinka and related languages.

The 'Browse' and 'Search' buttons above take you into the dataset. As it stands, the dataset comprises 5689 utterance tokens from a total of 10 speakers. For each utterance token, you will find a description of its structure and constituents, a recording (in several sound file formats), and some acoustic representations. Most sentences are available from either 3 or from 10 different speakers. You can choose to consider the datasets on tone, quantity, or both.

Additional information relating to the dataset:

This resource has been produced with support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It may be cited as Remijsen, Bert & Macmartin, Cedric (2007). Dinka Prosody Data Collection. Online resource of Linguistics & English Language, University of Edinburgh. [http://archive.lel.ed.ac.uk/NiloticProsody/]. If you are interested in downloading the dataset, please send an email to Bert Remijsen.