Taiwan Hakka Languages and TWHK_ToBI Annotation Conventions

This paper proposes a preliminary prosodic annotation system for Taiwan Hakka, “Taiwan Hakka Tones and Break Indices” is called TWHK_ToBI. TWHK_ToBI includes five tiers: ortho, words, tones, breaks, and miscellaneous. The ortho tier contains Romanization of each syllable and dictionary-defined tones; the words tier includes alphabetized SAMPA spellings of each word; the tones tier includes the sandhi tones for each syllable; the breaks tier indicates degree of juncture including words, fused words, intermediate phrase and intonational phrase boundaries; and the miscellaneous tier labels events such as code switching, laugh, and cough.