LING 520
Introduction to Phonetics
Fall 2008

COURSE INFORMATION
Instructor
Mark Liberman myl@cis.upenn.edu
TA
     Joshua Tauberer tauberer@ling.upenn.edu
Time and Location
Lectures: Mondays 2-4
Labs: Wednesday 3-4, Friday 10-11
Textbooks
(optional)
A Course in Phonetics, 5th ed. (2005), Peter Ladefoged, Thomson/Wadsworth Publishers.
Acoustic Analysis of Speech, Ray Kent and Charles Read, 2002
Grading
  • Labs: 40%
  • Midterm: 30%
  • Final project: 30%
Course webpage http://ling.upenn.edu/courses/ling520/
Other resources Software
Weston Ruter's IPA interface
CharWrite IPA interface  
Doulos SIL IPA font

SYLLABUS
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:
blank IPA consonant & vowel charts
blank vocal tract diagrams

Lab 1: Using Praat

Ladefoged
Ch 3, 4

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.

 
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)

Week 9 (Nov. 3-) Basic audition and speech perception (pdf)
(& Midterm review)

Lab 5: Spectrogram reading

Midterm
Week 10 (Nov. 17-) Speech prosody.

Lab 6