Do the following to add a new tier:
Enter the following information:
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. Enter the tier name.The tier name is the name that is displayed in the Timeline, Interlinear and Subtitle Viewer.
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. Enter the name of the participant whose utterance is being transcribed.Go to
. Select a parent tier from the pull-down menu.If the tier has no parent tier, select none.
Otherwise select the appropriate parent tier.
Go to Section 5.3).
. Select a linguistic type from the predefined list in the pull-down menu (see![]() | Note |
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The list of possible linguistic types is dependent on the parent tier that is chosen. E.g., if there is no parent tier ("none" in the pull down menu), the linguistic types to choose from are of the stereotype "none" (see Section 5.3). |
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. Select the default character set from the pull-down menu. If you don't change this, the system's default language will be chosen.Whenever you enter or change annotations on that tier, the text entry box is automatically preconfigured for the default character set.
Click the
button if you would like to change the color of the tier name and the font of the annotations. In the new dialog window you can change them by clicking , selecting a color or font and clicking . To apply the new color and font click .Finally click
to save the tier and its attributes. Otherwise click to exit the window without saving.