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LING 520 |
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COURSE INFORMATION |
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Instructor |
Jiahong Yuan, jiahong@ling.upenn.edu
(Office hours: Th 3:00-5:00, 609 Williams Hall) |
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Time and Location |
Lectures: Th 10-12; 623 Williams Hall. |
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Textbooks |
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Course in Phonetics, 5th ed. (2005), Peter Ladefoged, Thomson/Wadsworth
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Grading |
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Course webpage |
http://ling.upenn.edu/courses/ling520/ |
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Week |
Topics
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Readings
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Week 1 Sep. 10- |
Introduction, anatomy of speech production,
articulation of consonants and vowels (pdf). No Lab. |
Ladefoged Ch 1,2 |
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Week 2 Sep. 17- |
Phonetic transcription, English consonants and
vowels (pdf). Lab 1: English consonants (pdf). |
Ladefoged Ch 3,4 |
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Week 3 Sep. 24- |
Sounds in other languages (pdf). Lab 2: IPA transcription (html). |
Ladefoged Ch 6,7,9 |
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Week 4 Oct. 1- |
Basic acoustics and digital signal
processing (pdf). Lab 3: Measuring waveforms (pdf). |
Johnson Ch 1,2 |
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Week 5 Oct. 8- |
Acoustic theory of speech production (pdf). Lab 4: Vowel formants (html). |
Johnson Ch 5 |
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Week 6 Oct. 15- |
The acoustics of vowels (pdf). Lab 4: Vowel formants (html). |
Johnson Ch 6 Peterson and Barney (1952) Syrdal and Gopal (1986) |
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Week 7 Oct. 22- |
The acoustics of fricatives and stops (pdf). Lab 5: VOT (pdf). |
Johnson Ch 7, 8 Lisker and Abramson (1964) Blumstein and Stevens (1979) |
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Week 8 Oct. 29- |
The acoustics of nasals, liquids and glides
(pdf). Lab 6: Spectrogram reading. |
Johnson Ch 9 Espy-Wilson (1992) Kurowski and Blumstein (1993) |
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Week 9 Nov. 5- |
Exploratory data analysis and R (pdf). Final project proposals (Nov. 11). |
Lieberman (1960) House (1961) Gay (1968) Pierrehumbert and Steele (1989) Sproat and Fujimura (1993) |
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Week 10 Nov. 12- |
Phone-transition, gestures, landmarks;
midterm review. Midterm exam (Nov. 18). |
Browman and Goldstein (1990) Hertz (1991) Stevens (2002) |
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Week 11 Nov. 19- |
Suprasegmentals. |
Ladefoged Ch 10 Ladd (2008) Ch 1, 3.1 |
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Week 12 Nov. 26- |
Happy thanksgiving! Final projects. |
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Week 13 Dec. 3- |
Basic audition and speech perception. Final projects. |
Johnson Ch 3,4 Liberman et al (1957) Kuhl (1991) |
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Week 14 Dec. 10- |
Final project presentations (Dec. 10). |
Liberman and Mattingly (1985) Stevens (1989) |