Linguistics 105/205

Tentative Schedule

 

pdf version of syllabus

 

week 1

9/27

 

9/29

Introduction, the speech chain

 

Basic acoustics and spectrograms

Johnson – Ch. 1; (Ladefoged – Ch. 1-4)

 

week 2

10/4

 

 

10/6

Segmentation, VOT, introduction to Praat

selection from Lehiste chapter in Lass (handed out in class)

DURATION ASSIGNMENT given out (due 10/18)

Experimental methods, basic statistics

Johnson Quantitative Methods (1.6-1.8, 2.3, 3.1) – link to webpg.

 

week 3

10/11

 

 

10/13

 

Digital Speech, Source-filter theory

Johnson – Ch. 2.1-2.2; (Ladefoged – Ch. 9: 135-148)

Johnson – Ch. 1.4, Ch. 5.1-5.3; (Lad. – Ch. 5, Ch. 7-8 (to 122))

Tube models and vowel acoustics

Johnson – Ch. 5.4, Ch. 6; (Ladefoged – Ch. 8 (p.122-135))

ACOUSTICS ASSIGNMENT given out (due 10/25)

 

week 4

10/18

 

10/20

 

Spectral analysis, measuring formants (spectrogram reading)

Johnson – Ch. 2.3.3-2.3.6, Ch. 5.5; (Ladefoged – Ch. 9: 135-148)

no class

week 5

10/25

 

 

10/27

Quantal theory & Adaptive dispersion

Stevens (1972); Liljencrants & Lindblom (1972)

FORMANT ASSIGNMENT given out (due 11/8)

Data analysis

 

week 6

11/1

 

11/3

Source-filter theory for consonants

Johnson – Chs. 7 & 8

More consonant acoustics, spectrogram reading

Johnson – Ch. 9

PROJECT PROPOSAL (due 11/10)

 

week 7

11/8

 

 

11/10

Suprasegmentals

Pickett – Ch. 5 (in the class box)

F0 ASSIGNMENT given out (due 11/15)

Audition

Johnson – Ch. 3; (Ladefoged – Ch. 6)

 

week 8

11/15

 

11/17

Speech perception - cues and categorical perception

Wright (2004) chapter

Theories of speech perception and lexical recognition

Borden, et al. (2003) chapter excerpt

PERCEPTION ASSIGNMENT given out (due 11/29)

 

 

THANKSGIVING BREAK

 

week 9

11/29

 

12/1

Coarticulation - articulatory phonology and windows

Keating (1990)

Speech production

 

week 10

12/6

 

12/8

Phonetics in the grammar

 

PROJECT PRESENTATIONS

 

 

finals wk

FINAL PROJECT due 12/15 (Thurs)