LING 520
Introduction to Phonetics
Fall 2007

COURSE INFORMATION
Instructor
Jiahong Yuan, jiahong@ling.upenn.edu (Office hours: Thursdays 2:00-3:30)
Time and Location
Lectures: Mondays 2-4
Labs: Thursdays 3:45-4:45
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: 40%
  • Midterm: 30%
  • Final project: 30%
Course webpage http://ling.upenn.edu/courses/ling520/

SYLLABUS
Week Topics Readings
Week 1 (Sep. 10-) Introduction, Anatomy of speech production, Consonants and Vowels, IPA transcription (pdf).

No lab.

Ladefoged Ch 1,2
UCLA Phonetics Lab Data
Week 2 (Sep. 17-) English consonants and vowels, articulatory phonology (pdf).

Lab 1: Using Praat.

Ladefoged Ch 3,4
Week 3 (Sep. 24-) Sounds in other languages (pdf).

Lab 2: IPA transcription.

Ladefoged Ch 6,7,9
Week 4 (Oct. 1-) Basic acoustics, Fourier transform and LTI systems, Recording and sampling (pdf).

Lab 3: Matlab and signal processing.

Johnson Ch 1,2
Week 5 (Oct. 8-) Acoustic theory of speech production, acoustics of vowels (pdf).

Lab 3: Matlab and signal processing.

Johnson Ch 5,6
Week 6 (Oct. 15-) Fall break.

Lab 4: Vowel formants.

 
Week 7 (Oct. 22-) Acousitcs of vowels (continued), acoustics of fricatives (pdf).

Lab 4: Vowel formants.

Johnson Ch 7,8
Week 8 (Oc. 29-) Acoustics of stops, nasals and liquids (pdf).

Lab 5: Spectrogram readings.

Johnson Ch 9
Week 9 (Nov. 5-) Basic audition and speech perception (pdf).

Lab 6: Stress in Swahili.

Johnson Ch 3,4
Week 10 (Nov. 12-) Speech prosody.

Lab 6: Stress in Swahili.

Ladefoged Ch 5,10