LING 520
Introduction to Phonetics
Fall 2007
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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: Thursdays 2:00-3:30) |
| Time and Location |
Lectures: Mondays 2-4 |
| Textbooks |
A Course in Phonetics, 5th ed. (2005), Peter Ladefoged, Thomson/Wadsworth Publishers. |
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| Course webpage | http://ling.upenn.edu/courses/ling520/ |
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SYLLABUS
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| 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 | |