LING 520 |
COURSE
INFORMATION |
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Instructor |
Mark Liberman myl@cis.upenn.edu |
TA | Joshua Tauberer tauberer@ling.upenn.edu |
Time and Location |
Lectures: Mondays 2-4 |
Textbooks (optional) |
A Course in Phonetics, 5th ed. (2005), Peter Ladefoged, Thomson/Wadsworth Publishers. |
Grading |
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Course webpage | http://ling.upenn.edu/courses/ling520/ |
Other resources | Software Weston Ruter's IPA interface CharWrite IPA interface Doulos SIL IPA font |
SYLLABUS |
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Week | Topics | Readings | |
Week 1 (Sept. 8-) | Introduction, Anatomy of speech production, Consonants and Vowels, IPA transcription (pdf).
No lab. | Ladefoged Ch. 1-2 | |
Week 2 (Sept. 15-) | English consonants and vowels, articulatory phonology (pdf) Study aids: Lab 1: Using Praat | ||
Week 3 (Sep. 22-) | Sounds in other languages
(pdf)
Lab 2: IPA transcription | Ladefoged Ch 6,7,9 | |
Week 4 (Sept. 29-) | Basic acoustics, Fourier transform and LTI systems, Recording and sampling
(pdf)
Lab 3: F0 and formant analysis | Kent Ch 2, 3 | |
Week 5 (Oct. 6-) | Acoustic theory of speech production, acoustics of vowels (pdf) | (= Week 4) | |
Week 6 (Oct. 13-) | Fall break.
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Week 7 (Oct. 20-) | Acoustics of vowels (continued), acoustics of fricatives
(pdf)
Lab 4: Vowel formants | ||
Week 8 (Oc. 27-) | Acoustics of stops, nasals and liquids
(pdf)
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Week 9 (Nov. 3-) | Basic audition and speech perception (pdf) (& Midterm review) Lab 5: Spectrogram reading | ||
Midterm | |||
Week 10 (Nov. 17-) | Speech prosody. |