Introduction to Phonetics, L541

L541 Home, Section 7584/7585/7583
April 15, 2007

Instructor: Robert Port, portat indiana dot edu
Off: 330 Mem Hall, 855-9217
Office Hours: M 3:00-5:00- or any time by appt.

Assistant Instructor: Kenji Yoshida
Phonetics Lab: 401 Mem Hall
Office Hours: 11:00-12:00 MW

Texts and Other Materials

Ladefoged, Peter (2006) A Course in Phonetics, Fifth Edition Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Fort Worth. Including audio files available from the UCLA website for the book or from the CD.
Johnson, Keith (2003) Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics, 2d Edition Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UK. .
Other Readings that will generally be linked from the syllabus.
Handouts supplied in lecture and lab.
Lab Web page. Including access to audio clips.
Waveform editor. It is recommended that you download a copy of Wavesurfer (a free acoustic editor and analysis program) available for PCs, Macs and for Linux. It is a small program and very easy to use.

Some places to start looking for speech information on the web:

Prof. Kewley-Port's collection of sites for speech acoustics and hearing. Many useful tutorial articles can be found.
Speech Comm'ctn Technical Comm, Acous. Society of Amer. Has pointers to useful websites about speech production, perception, technology, etc.
Physiological and Psychological Acoustics (hearing) Technical Comm, ASA.

Other Recommended Books

Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A Guide to the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Cambridge University press. 1999. IPA website.

Papers in Speech Communication: Speech Production/Speech Perception/Speech Processing. (1991) 3 vols. Edited by Bishnu Atal, Ray Kent and Joanne Miller. Acoustical Society of America. Photoreproduced selection of the most important research articles, 1950-1990. An excellent collection. Most of the readings in my version of Advance Phonetics, L641 are selected from the production and perception volumes. For a list of the included papers, see the ASA Publications page.

Basis for Grade

1. Your final grade will be based on the following items: Acoustics quiz1 or Acoustics quiz2 15% (whichever grade is better), Lab homeworks 15%, Phonetic transcription in-class 5%, Phonetic transcription take-home 10%, Spectrogram quiz 10%, Experiment writeup 20%, Final exam 25%.

2. Read each week's material before Monday lecture.

3. Class attendance and participation are important for this class, as well as participation in the lab sessions.

4. Your experiment project should be done with a team of 2 or 3 students. The experiment topic and design will be worked out in discussions with Port. More details will come soon about this project. Students will collect and analyze data as a team but each will write their own individual report. (You need the practice writing in this style.) Begin thinking now about possible teammates and a project topic.

5. Plagiarism or other cheating will lead to loss of credit for the course. If you are unsure what counts as cheating, ask one of the instructors.

Syllabus

Week 1. Jan 8. Transcription, Features, Speech Anatomy.

Ladefoged Chap 1, 2.

Animated introduction to anatomy. Click on Respiratory System. Then study Nose,

and Larynx. Make sure you understand the gross `plumbing' of the respiratory
system, that is the tubes and valves. We will return to the larynx later for details.

Week 2. Jan 15. Transcription, English Consonants and Vowels

Wells, John (1999) Introduction to Handbook of the International Phonetic
Association. (pp 3-13, 27-30, 32-38)
Ladefoged, Chap 3-4.

See Port's Rules for English Allophones

Week 3. Jan 22. Stress, intonation

Ladefoged Chap 5.
Transcription clips: Indiana, British, Boston
Orthographic text for Indiana-British-Boston clip.

Week 4. Jan 29. More Acoustics

Johnson Chap 1, 2.1, 2.2 (pp. 1-28) (2.3 optional); Ladef Chap 8.

Basic acoustics page: (Kettering's Acoustics Demos)

John Coleman's Introduction to Speech Acoustics

X-ray cinema of speech. (Kevin Munhall's webpage)

Week 5. Feb 5. Hearing, Acoustic Theory of Speech.

Johnson Chap 3, 4. Acoustics of Speech page
Experiment Project: Information on Course Project - due in last class

Experiment Guidelines
Writing up the Experiment

Week 6. Feb 12. Acoustics of Vowels.

Johnson Chap 5; resonance of tubes, nodes/antinodes

Ladef Chap 9 (Vowels).
Page of acoustics problems.

Week 7. Feb 19. Acoustics of Vowels, Digital Signal Processing

Digital signal processing, basic overview.

Recommended: DSP Tutorial website.

Check the Java Applets too.
Continuous Speech Plotting Exercise

Week 8. Feb 26. Acoustics of Vowels.

The Ear and Audition. Johnson Chapter 3 (again)
Hearing for Linguists
Johnson, Chapter 6.1-6.3 (6.4, optional)

For the quiz, see the Study Guide for Acoustics
Johnson, Chapter 2
Port's Signal Processing Notes

Week 9. Mar 5. Hearing and Acoustics of Consonants

Quiz Monday: Acoustics of speech.

[SPRING BREAK]

Week 10-11. Mar 19-Mar 28. Overlap and the continuous structure of speech.

Recommended: Ladefoged Chapter 8 (esp. material on spectrogram reading)

Reading spectrograms. Quiz on Monday April 9.

Week 12. April 2-4 Voicing-like Constrasts and Clicks, etc.

Ladef Chap 6, 7 (airstream mechanisms, voicing, manners)
Johnson, Chap 7 fricatives: acoustic model, quantal frics, fric spectra

Chap 8 stops and affricates: phonation types, sound sources, formant transitions

Week 13-14. April 9-11, 16-18. Transcribing prosody: the ToBi Method

Ladefoged pp. 124-128.
Recommended: Check Ohio SU ToBi web pages.

Port's ToBi Summary
ToBi Examples Listen to these clips: Audio1, Audio2, Audio3, Audio4
Produce a ToBI transcription of the clips on this page. Some Tobi Practice
DailyWav Clips for ToBI

Week 15. April 23-25. What is phonetics and where does it come from?

Chomsky, Noam and M. Halle (1968) Sound Pattern of English, excerpt Chap 1, pp 3-7, Chap 7, pp 293-309.
Handout Universality of Features

Recommended before the next paper:. Port, R. F. (2007) Phonology is not psychological and speech processing is not linguistic. (5pg mspt)

Port, Robert (in press, 2007) How are words stored in memory: Beyond phones and phonemes. New Ideas in Psychology (Elsevier). (31 pgs.) Can be found at Port's Hi-D Phonology webpage.

Oral Final Examination: Thursday and Friday May 3,4.

Project reports are due last week of class.

RF Port