5.4.1. Adding new tiers

Do the following to add a new tier:

  1. Click on Tier > Add New Tier.... The Add Tier dialog window appears.

  2. Define the tier attributes:

    Tier attributes

    Figure 5.13. Tier attributes


Enter the following information:

  1. Go to Tier name. Enter the tier name.

    The tier name is the name that is displayed in the Timeline, Interlinear and Subtitle Viewer.

  2. Go to Participant. Enter the name of the participant whose utterance is being transcribed.

  3. Go to Parent tier. Select a parent tier from the pull-down menu.

    • If the tier has no parent tier, select none.

    • Otherwise select the appropriate parent tier.

  4. Go to Linguistic type. Select a linguistic type from the predefined list in the pull-down menu (see Section 5.3).

    [Note]Note

    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).

  5. Go to Default Language. 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.

  6. Click the More Options... 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 Browse..., selecting a color or font and clicking OK. To apply the new color and font click Apply.

Finally click Add to save the tier and its attributes. Otherwise click Cancel to exit the window without saving.