Linguistics 105/205

Assignments

· Assignment 1: Duration

Voicing-conditioned vowel length and VOT variation

o download soundfiles

(This is a zipped file that contains all 12 of the soundfiles for this assignment.)

· Assignment 2: Acoustics Exercise

· Assignment 3: Formants

Vowel-to-vowel contextual influence

o download soundfiles

(This is a Praat collection file that contains all of the soundfiles for this assignment. Simply download and open this file in Praat.)

o formant plotting instructions

· Assignment 4: F0

Lexical tone and intonation in Mandarin Chinese

o download soundfiles

(This is a Praat collection file that contains all of the soundfiles for this assignment. Simply download and open this file in Praat.)

o glosses for Mandarin data

(This file contains glosses for all the Mandarin sentences, as well as an explanation of the file naming scheme.)

· Assignment 5: Perception Exercise

Categorical perception & Splicing

o Categorical perception experiment

www.ling.gu.se/~anders/KatPer/Applet/index.eng.html

o download soundfiles

(This is a Praat collection file. Download and open this file in Praat.)

o Splicing handout

(This file describes the splicing scheme for Part 2 of the assignment and gives step-by-step directions for splicing in Praat.)

NB: In case this isn’t clear in the handout, make sure there is only one difference between each pair of tokens in you minimal triples—so use the same [æ] for both tack and tag and the same [g] for both t[æ]g and t[ε]g.