LING 520
Introduction to Phonetics
Fall 2009

 

COURSE INFORMATION

Instructor

Jiahong Yuan, jiahong@ling.upenn.edu (Office hours: Th 3:00-5:00, 609 Williams Hall)

Time and Location

Lectures: Th 10-12; 623 Williams Hall.
Labs: W 3:30-5:00; 623 Williams Hall.

Textbooks

A Course in Phonetics, 5th ed. (2005), Peter Ladefoged, Thomson/Wadsworth Publishers.
Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics, 2nd ed. (2003), Keith Johnson, Blackwell Publishers.

Grading
  • Labs: 30%
  • Midterm: 40%
  • Final project: 30%

Course webpage

http://ling.upenn.edu/courses/ling520/

 

Week

Topics

Readings

Week 1

Sep. 10-

Introduction, anatomy of speech production, articulation of consonants and vowels (pdf).

No Lab.

Ladefoged Ch 1,2
UCLA Phonetics Lab Data

Week 2

Sep. 17-

Phonetic transcription, English consonants and vowels (pdf).

Lab 1: English consonants (pdf).

Ladefoged Ch 3,4

Week 3

Sep. 24-

Sounds in other languages (pdf).

Lab 2: IPA transcription (html).

Ladefoged Ch 6,7,9

Week 4

Oct. 1-

Basic acoustics and digital signal processing (pdf).

Lab 3: Measuring waveforms (pdf).

Johnson Ch 1,2

Week 5

Oct. 8-

Acoustic theory of speech production (pdf).

Lab 4: Vowel formants (html).

Johnson Ch 5

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)

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)

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)

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)

Week 10

Nov. 12-

Phone-transition, gestures, landmarks; midterm review.

Midterm exam (Nov. 18).

Browman and Goldstein (1990)

Hertz (1991)

Stevens (2002)

Week 11

Nov. 19-

Suprasegmentals.

Ladefoged Ch 10

Ladd (2008) Ch 1, 3.1

Week 12

Nov. 26-

Happy thanksgiving!

Final projects.

 

Week 13

Dec. 3-

Basic audition and speech perception.

Final projects.

Johnson Ch 3,4

Liberman et al (1957)

Kuhl (1991)

Week 14

Dec. 10-

Final project presentations (Dec. 10).

Liberman and Mattingly (1985)

Stevens (1989)