Fall 2004
Linguistics 414
Phonetics for Linguists M W 2:30-3:45 PM at HaslabA 111

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News:Important notices are posted below. Check this course website frequently, as least once a week.

• Key for Exam 3 is posted (This is the final posting).
• The description for Experiment 5 is posted.
• If you didn't get a copy of the course evaluation in class, you can get it here. Please fill it out and return it to Sarah Vega-Liros in the Linguistics Department office. Thanks.

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Instructor: John Kingston
Office: South College 317
Phone: 545-6833, -6837 (Phonetics Lab & voice mail), -0889 (messages).
Email: jkingston@linguist.umass.edu
Office hours: By appointment

Teaching assistant: Takahito Shinya
Office: Bartlett 6 (Phonetics Lab)
Office hours: Tu W 11:00-1:00 PM
Email: tshinya@linguist.umass.edu

Textbook
Reading for this course is lecture notes, which is available through Collective Copies, off the west side of the Amherst Common, next to the Peter Pan Station.

Syllabus

*Important*

• In this course there is a lab session which is not described in the official course discription. The purpose of the session is to show you how to use the equipment or software programs needed to conduct the experiments in the course. In order for the session to be effective we restrict the number of people in a session to five. Consequently, we have several lab sessions in different time slots in at least one of which you must attend. We talk about the time slots on the first day.
  
• We will use the software package called PRAAT in analyzing the results of many of the experiments you will run in this course. This software is free and runs on Windows and Macs. You download the software from here.Make sure that you install it in the computer you will work with in the course.

Schedule

		Topic	Reading	Experiments	Exams
Week 1	Sept/8	Introduction
Week 2	Sept/13	Aerodynamics	2.1-2.2	1 out
	Sept/15	Lungs	2.3
Week 3	Sept/20	Laryngeal anatomy	2.4
	Sept/22	Vocal fold vibration	2.5
Week 4	Sept/27	F0 control	2.6-2.7	1 due
	Sept/29	F0 control			1 out
Week 5	Oct/4	Sound	3.1	2 out
	Oct/6	Resonance	3.2		1 due Exam 1 KEY
Week 6	Oct/11	No class. Columbus Day.
	Oct/13	Resonance		2 due 3 out
Week 7	Oct/18	Vowel and consonant acoustics	3.3
	Oct/20	Vowel articulations	4.1-4.3
Week 8	Oct/25	Vowel variability and change	4.4-4.5
	Oct/27	Vowel inventories	4.6	3 due	Exam2 out
Week 9	Nov/1	Manner of articulation, Airstream mechanism	5.1-5.6
	Nov/3	Voiced obstruents	5.7-5.9	4 out	2 due Exam 2 KEY
Week 10	Nov/8	Variability in laryngeal articulations	5.10
	Nov/10	Acoustic variability and perceptual invariance	6.1-6.6
Week 11	Nov/15	Acoustic variability and perceptual invariance
	Nov/17	Categorical perception	6.7
Week 12	Nov/22	No class. Thursday schedule.
	Nov/24	Infant and animal speech perception	6.8-6.9	4 due 5 out
Week 13	Nov/29	Nonspeech analogues, duplex perception	6.10-6.11		Exam 3 out
	Dec/1	Motor equivalence and coordination	7.1-7.2
Week 14	Dec/6	Coarticulation	TBA
	Dec/8	Assimilation	TBA
Week 15	Dec/13	No class. Prof. Kingston will be away.		5 due	3 due Exam 3 KEY

Experiments
You will run five experiments in this course. The description for each experiment is seen below.

• Experiment 1
  Constraints on nasal air flow
  Description
  
  
• Experiment 2
  Acoustics of simple and complex waves, using a filter to simulate the effects of resonances, sine-wave synthesis of vowels.
  Description
  
  Sound files:
  If your operating system is Windows, download the first batch of complex wave files (those with .wav extensions), if it's instead Mac OS, download the second batch of complex wave files (those with .aiff extensions).
  
  Windows [wav_1 wav_2 wav_3 wav_4] Mac [aiff_1 aiff_2 aiff_3 aiff_4]
  
  Script files: Script
  
  
• Experiment 3
  Modeling the effects of changes in the cross-sectional area of the vocal tract on its acoustic output and comparing them to observations.
  Description
  Key
  
  
• Experiment 4
  Are lexical effects just biases?
  Description
  Instructions
  Debriefing for identification
  Debriefing for discrimination
  Possible participants for Experiments
  
  Templete (and definition) files:
  Indentification templete file
  Discrimination templete file
  Discrimination definition file
  
  Results:
  Two syllable id functions
  Two syllable pairwise discrimination
  Two syllable cumulative discriminaton
  
  Statistical analysis:
  Statistical analysis
  
  
• Experiment 5
  How does one sound affect its neighbor's pronunciation?
  Description
  
  

Extra Materials

• Figure 2.32
  
  

Useful Links

• Rotatable 3D image of larynx
  
• Many useful images and detailed discussion of laryngeal anatomy
  
• Pictures and very detailed descriptions of laryngeal anatomy
• Vibration of the vocal folds
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  2 (video clip)
  3
  
• Description of waves and their behaviors (animation in Lesson 3)
• Nature of sound

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Last updated on December 29, 2004.
Copyright © 2004 by Takahito Shinya