Verbs: tenses

See the distributed grammar extract.

Important points:

1. Inflecting verbs and non-inflecting verb-nouns.
2. Agreement categories: person, number.
3. Tenses.

Practical descriptive work:

Using the WAV file provided, do the following:

1. Open your Home folder, and make a subfolder named "Audio".
2. Copy the file from the Kurstransfer folder to your Audio folder.
3. Start the Praat software, and Open ("Read") the file - you will now have a Sound object in the Praat object list.
4. Search for the first Welsh dialogue "Dialogue 1".
5. Select the dialogue and extract the selection - you will now have another Sound object in the Praat object list.
6. Save this sound object under the name "<yourdesknumber>_Dialogue1"
7. Create a TextGrid, removing the silly default tier names and entering the tier name "Orthography" (under "Label...") - you will now have a TextGrid object in the Praat object list.
8. Select the second Sound object and the Textgrid, and click on Edit.
9. Place a boundary after each utterance by clicking between utterances, click on the little circle above the Orthography tier to create a boundary.
10. Click on a segment and transcribe the segment orthographically.
11. Do this for all utterances.
12. Then create a new tier "Grammar", and the same for the parts of speech (POS) which have already been introduced, labelling them with their POS names.
13. For nouns and verbs, add their inflexional information.
14. Create a further tier, and annotate positions where mutation occurs with the mutation type and the mutation trigger.