Type of Credit: Elective
Credit(s)
Number of Students
This class will provide an introduction to the acoustic aspects of speech sounds along with antonym and physiology of speech production. In particular, the course is to examine various aspects of human speech production/perception and the nature of the acoustic signal that is transmitted from speaker to listener. The acoustic properties to be investigated involve the time domain features such as the amplitude of a waveform, the duration, F0, and the frequency domain features such as the frequency spectrum, the spectrogram, and/or combined spectrotemporal features. The class will also involve a series of trainings for transcribing and dictating the symbols of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Students will be able to create and analyze broadband spectrograms using the program of PRAAT (Boersma and Weenink, 2020), and study the full variety of articulations and acoustics in the speech sounds of the world’s languages. The class involves two-hour lecture sessions and one-hour lab work.
Notes:
加退選課期間歡迎旁聽選課，加退選截止日過後課堂學生必須為正式選課生，本門課不收旁聽生。
Students who enroll the class in an official capacity will earn a grade and credits. Auditing the course or sitting-in on this class is not allowed.
能力項目說明
This class will provide an introduction to the acoustic aspects of speech sounds along with antonym and physiology of speech production. In particular, the course is to examine various aspects of human speech production/perception and the nature of the acoustic signal that is transmitted from speaker to listener. The acoustic properties to be investigated involve the time domain features such as the amplitude of a waveform, the duration, F0, and the frequency domain features such as the frequency spectrum, the spectrogram, and/or combined spectrotemporal features. The class will also involve a series of trainings for transcribing and dictating the symbols of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Students will be able to create and analyze broadband spectrograms using the program of KAY and/or PRAAT (Boersma and Weenink, 2018), and study the full variety of articulations and acoustics in the speech sounds of the world’s languages. The class involves two-hour lecture sessions and one-hour lab work.
| 教學週次Course Week | 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week | 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type |
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Language Demonstrations: 10%
Homework Assignments: 35%
Term Project/Presentation: 30%
Final Exam: 25%
Notes on Assignments:
Language Demonstrations: The class will present a demonstration of the phonetics of a foreign language, with handouts indicating correct phonetic symbols.
Homework Assignments: T3hese are designed to allow you to solidify your understanding of concepts discussed in class by using them to analyze new data, particularly, spectrograms. You may discuss the questions on the assignments with other class members or with the instructor, but you must write up your answers individually. In most cases you will have a week to do the assignment, and it will be due at the beginning of class on the due date. However, you should never skip class because your assignment is not completed; please see the instructor if you have occasional problems with due dates.
Term Projects: Students will do original elicitation of phonetic data from a native speaker of a language which the student does not speak; alternatively your subject may be a child, or an adult with a language disorder. The paper will consist of an analysis of the subject’s phonetic system, and should include acoustic analyses done in the Phonetics Lab (i.e. spectrograms, F0 points, etc.)
Final Exam: Two-hour exam held during finals week; comprehensive, open book/note.
TEXTBOOKS
Note: Readings and exercises out of books are to be prepared prior to the lecture for which they are assigned.