Linguistics 580:
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Course Schedule (subject to change
during semester)
--ACP indicates
Ladefoged's Course in Phonetics (5th Ed.).
--SOWL indicates Sounds
of a Course in Phonetics software; SOWL indicates Sounds of the World's Languages
software at: hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/index.html
--All computer material
not on-line is in the Phonetics Lab Ling 580 folder. The lab will be
made available in weeks needed, at times to be announced.
--Reading is due
for the week indicated. All assignments are due the following week
in section, (i.e. the listing below is for the week assigned, not the week
due.).
Lecture Notes will be made available on Blackboard and are not for circulation.
All readings, lab work, and assignments are required unless labelled 'optional;'
however, only "assignments" are to be turned in.
Week 1 (T Jan 9 & Th Jan 11)
Introduction to Phonetics
Vocal Tract Anatomy, Building Blocks
Reading: ACP Chapters 1-2; Listen to Chapter 2 Examples; ACP pp. 264-268;Handout: L. Goldstein & P. Rubin "Speech: The Dances
of the Vocal Tract," To appear in a special issue of Odyssey on psychology of language (G. Marcus, Ed.)
Lab: From Goldstein: view MRI Movies of Oral Gesture, Velum Gesture;
Static MRI of vowels
Real time MRI movies of speech from the USC SPAN group [click on videos]
Assignment: Throughout this course, please do transcription in pencil or large typing, skipping lines
ACP pp. 48-49 A-C, Write in orthography p. 51 J ; Outer Yuccan transcription practice (from Peter Ladefoged via Louis Goldstein)
Week 2 (T Jan 16 & Th Jan 18)
English Consonants
English Vowels
Reading: ACP Chapters 3 and 4
Lab: SCP Chapter 3 and Chapter 4; Vowel Countries demo, USC Speech Production and Articulation kNowledge (SPAN) group--click Videos,
English Around the World
Assignment: ACP Ch 3, Ex D; ACP Ch 4, Ex G and H (please also give orthography, so I know what you are transcribing); Waveform Assignment (file download location available on Blackboard)
Week 3 (T Jan 23 & Th Jan 25)
Speech Acoustics and Source Filter Theory
Pulmonic Consonants I
Reading: ACP Chapter 8 up to p. 190; Johnson Chapter 5 up to p. 97; ACP Ch. 7 up to 169Lab: The Physics Classroom: Sound and Musical Instruments, Scientific American: The throat singers of Tuva [on Blackboard]
Week 4 (T Jan 30 & Thurs Feb 1)
Pulmonic Consonants II and Quantal Theory
Laterals, Taps, Flaps, & Trill and Formants
Reading: ACP Chapter 7; Johnson Chapter 7 and pp. 141-167
Lab: SOWL: Burmese, Yanyawa, Titan and Kele,Prof. Esling's movies of pharyngeals
Assignment: Segmenting Waveforms Homework (Blackboard); Listening quizes: Malayalam and Ewe (from SOWL, quizes courtesy L. Goldstein)
Week 5 (T Feb 6 & Th Feb 8)
Initiation, VOT
Airstream MechanismReading: ACP Chapter 6; Borden, Harris, & Raphael (BHR) pp. 58-72 (don't worry about muscle names not covered in class)
Lab: SCP Chapter 6, Xhosa Listening Quiz; VOT and Aspiration Tutorial (John Maidment, SIPhTrA);
SOWL (listen to some languages listed under Airstream Mechanisms in the Sounds Index)
Assignment: Nthlakampx Listening Quiz; Thai Listening Quiz (from SOWL, quiz courtesy L. Goldstein), Gestural Timing Diagrams Homework (Blackboard)
Week 6 (T Feb 13 only)Larynx and Phonation Type
Reading: BHR pp. 72-89, Ladefoged & Maddieson pp. 47-63
Lab: Goldstein: Larynx Film Festival, SCP Chapter 6 (states of the glottis)
Assignment: Listening quizes for Hindi & Sindhi (from SOWL, quiz courtesy L. Goldstein);
Measuring Fundamental Frequency in Pitchworks in Phonetics Lab (or Pratt) (Blackboard)
Project Assigned
Week 7 (T Feb 20 & Th Feb 22)
Vowels
Spectrograms I
Reading: ACP; Chapter 9 up to p. 229, Chapter 8 p. 190-209; print for your notes John Fry's Spectrograms Handout
Lab: SCP Chapter 9; SOWL Vowels: Dutch, Vietnamese, Swedish, German, French; Vowel Charts collected by Antti Iivonen
(www.helsinki.fi/hum/hyfl/projektit/vokaalikartat_eng.html)
Assignment: Cardinal Vowels of Daniel Jones Listening Quiz (do with a partner and grade yourself...not to turn in)
Week 8 (T Feb 27 1 & Th Mar 1)
Exam (covers through Week 6, lecture 2)
Spectrogram Reading II
Reading:
Lab: Hagiwara's How to Read a Spectrogram
Assignment: Cardinal Vowels Listening Quiz (from Ladefoged via Goldstein);
Project abstract due next week
Week 9 (T Mar 6 & Th Mar 8)
Spectrogram Reading III
Nasals
Reading:
Lab: SOWL: Italian, Malay
Assignment: Measuring the formant frequencies of your own vowels using Macquierer in Phonetics Lab (or with Praat) (Blackboard)
Project Abstract Due Tuesday
Spring Break
Week 10 (T Mar 20 & Th lecture to be rescheduled)
Tone
Geminates, Secondary & Multiple Articulations
Reading: ACP pp. 244-254, pp. 229-231
Lab: SOWL: Mpi, Cantonese, Thai-Phake, Ibibio, Hmong, Idoma, Dedua, Russian, Arabic
Thai Tones, Italian length
Assignment: Listening quizes for Cantonese, Swedish (from SOWL via Goldstein); Identifying Articulatory Gestures using Praat (Blackboard)
[Praat assignment due in 2 weeks]
Week 11 (T Mar 27 & Th Mar 29)
Prosody
Phonetic Instrumentation
Reading: ACP Chapter 5 and Chapter 10
Lab: Mark Liberman: Linguistic form in art and play: language games, song, verse
Assignment: Gusii Listening Quiz
Week 12 (T Apr 3 & Th Apr 5)
Articulatory Phonology and Task Dynamics
Reading: Browman, C. P., & Goldstein, L. "Dynamics & Articulatory Phonology" from Mind as Motion
Browman, C. P., & Goldstein, L. (1992) "Articulatory phonology: An overview." Phonetica, 49, 155-180.
Lab: Haskins Laboratories: Introduction to Articulatory Phonology and the Gestural Computational Model
Assignment: DO THE READINGS
Week 13 (T Apr 10 & Th Apr 12)
Hearing
Speech Perception
Reading: Johnson Chapter 3 & 4; BHR Chapter 6 pp 183-220; Common Misconceptions about Hearing by Marek Roland-Mieszkowski
Lab: Ladefoged's experiment from 1957
Assignment: on-line categorical perception experiment [due in TWO weeks] [This homework was designed and written by
Toby Mintz, USC, and should not be used without permission.]
Assignment here; instructions here; spreadsheet here [all from Toby Mintz, by permission]; on-line site here
[due in April 23]
Section Meeting--hour-and-a-half (required): Sound & Fury in reading room GFS 330; 10-11:30
Week 14 (T Apr 17 & Th Apr 19)
Speech Technology (lecture and a half)
Communication Disorders (first half)
Reading: ASHA Consumer Brochures regarding Aphasia, Spasmodic Dysphonia, Stuttering, Voice Problems
Lab: Speech Synthesis and Recognition Sites; Examples of Synthesized Speech (University of Stuttgart),
Pattern Playback; Haskins Laboratories: Talking Heads--McGurk (other interesting entries in frame at left of this site)
Multimodal speech demos at KTH
Week 15 (T Apr 24 & Th Apr 26)
Communication Disorders (second half)
Summary & Evaluations
Be prepared to discuss Sound & Fury
Reading:
Lab: ASL Browser;
Safe listening levels for ipods
Assignment:
Final Project Due Friday Apr 27 by 4pm.
Production Exam Appointments May 3rd.
Exam 2 and Transcription Exam on Tuesday May 8th, 11am.