EXPERIMENTAL METHODS ON PHONETICS Fall 2008
Instructor: 陈忠敏 Chén, Zhōngmǐn [tən35 tʊŋ55 min214]
Location/Time: 上海师大语言所101/Sunday
E-mail: zhongminchen7@hotmail.com
Purpose and goal:
This course is designed with a practical goal: to train students in the techniques of experimental phonetic in order to prepare them for more advance research in phonetics and phonology within linguistics, speech technology, communication disorder, and language acquisition. It will provide the student with hands-on experience in methods of experimental phonetic research, including audio recording, acoustic speech database construction, recording and interpreting speech air flow and pressure, static palatography, and the design of perception tests. In addition, students receive training in writing up experimental results for publication.
Prerequisites:
It is better for you to have finished ‘Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology’ and ‘Experimental Phonology and Sound Change’ which I taught last year at Zhejiang and Shanghai Universities, before you take this course..
Since this is a bilingual course (required text, reading materials, homework assignments, project introduction written in English; but don’t worry, you could use Chinese to answer questions and write the project, etc.), a good English-reading ability is obligatorily required for all students who enroll in the course.
Coursework:
Reading assignments; in-class participation; six group homework projects.
Textbook:
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Ladefoged, Peter. 2003 Phonetic Data Analysis: An Introduction to Fieldwork and Instrumental Techniques. Cambridge: Blackwell.
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Clark, John & Yallop, Colin 1996. Introduction to phonetics and phonology. Second edition, Blackwell 此书作为“当代国外语言学与应用语言学文库”的一种在中国外语教学与研究出版社出版
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Ladefoged, Peter 1996. Elements of Acoustic Phonetics (2th ed.). The University of Chicago Press.
Reference books:
Clark, John & Yallop, Colin 1996. Introduction to phonetics and phonology.
Second edition, Blackwell 此书作为“当代国外语言学与应用语言学文库”的一种在中国外语教学与研究出版社出版
Baken R.J. and Robert F. Orlikoff 2000. Clinical Measurement of Speech and Voice (2nd ed) Singular Thomson Learing.
Borden G. J., Harris K. S & Raphael L. J. 2003 Speech Science Primer, Physiology, Acoustics, and
Perception of Speech (4th ed) Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Catford, J. C. 1977. Fundamental Problems in Phonetics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Hardcastle, William J. & John Laver ed. 1997. The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences. Blackwell.
Johnson Keith 2003. Acoustic & Auditory Phonetics. Second edition, Blackwell.
Ladefoged, Peter 1996. Elements of Acoustic Phonetics (2th ed.). The University of Chicago Press
Ladefoged, Peter 2006. A Course in Phonetics (5th ed.). Thomas Wadsworth..
Stevens, Kenneth 1999. Acoustic Phonetics. MIT Press.
Rosen, Stuart and Peter Howell 1991. Signals and Systems for Speech and Hearing. Academic Press.
Homework projects: The class will be divided into research teams who will work on homework projects together. One student of the team will presents results during the lectures for each topic. The homework projects are the focus of the course, and will occupy much of our time together in the class meetings. The projects are designed to be specific enough to be doable, while introducing students to general research methods in experimental phonetics. Each student should turn in a final project based on his/her own interesting topic related the experimental phonetics in the end of the long semester.
Tentative schedule:
WEEK OF
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Topic
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Readings; Assignments
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Week 1
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Bureaucratic preliminaries;
Topic I Palatography I
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Ladefoged 2003 Chapter 2
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Week 2
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Topic I Palatography II
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Ladefoged 2003 Chapter 2
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Week 3
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Topic I Palatography III
Student’s presentation 1
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Ladefoged 2003 Chapter 2
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Week 4
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Topic II Aerodynamic properties of speech I
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Ladefoged 2003 Chapter 3
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Week 5
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Topic II Aerodynamic properties of speech II
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Ladefoged 2003 Chapter 3
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Week 6
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Topic II Aerodynamic properties of speech III
Student’s presentation 2
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Ladefoged 2003 Chapter 3
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Week 7
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Topic III Audio recording I
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Ladefoged 2003 Chapter 1
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Week 8
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Topic III Audio recording II
Student’s presentation 3
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Ladefoged 2003 Chapter 1
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Week 9
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Topic IV Digital signal processing
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Ladefoged 1996 Chapter 9
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Week 10
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Topic V Basic acoustics and acoustic filters
Student’s presentation 4
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Ladefoged 1996 Chapter 1-5
Clark Chapter 7
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Week 11
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Topic VI Acoustic/phonetic databases I vowels
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Ladefoged Chapter 5
Clark Chapter 7
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Week 12
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Topic VI Acoustic/phonetic databases II vowels
Student’s presentation 5
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Ladefoged Chapter 5
Clark Chapter 7
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Week 13
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Topic VI Acoustic/phonetic databases III consonants
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Ladefoged Chapter 6
Clark Chapter 7
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Week 14
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Topic VI Acoustic/phonetic databases IV consonants
Student’s presentation 6
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Ladefoged Chapter 6
Clark Chapter 7
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Week 15
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Topic VII Acoustic analysis of phonation types and tones I
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Ladefoged Chapter 4 & 7
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Week 16
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Topic VII Acoustic analysis of phonation types and tones I
Student’s presentation 7
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Ladefoged Chapter 4 & 7
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Week 17
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Topic VIII Speech perception I
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Ladefoged 1996 Chapter 6
Clark Chapter 8
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Week 18
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Topic VIII Speech perception II
Student’s presentation 8
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Ladefoged 1996 Chapter 6
Clark Chapter 8
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Web Resources: IPA fonts http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts
http://www.eastling.org
IPA Help http://www.sil.org/computing/speechtools
Speech Analysis Software: Praat http://fonsg3.hum.uva.nl/praat
Wavesurfer: http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/
Cool Edit: http://www.eastling.org/resource.htm
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