NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 語音學(5152)
(Eng.) Phonetics
Offering Dept Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Course Type Elective Credits 3 Teacher CHEN, CHUN-MEI
Department Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures/Graduate Language English Semester 2024-FALL
Course Description This course is designed to help undergraduates and graduates interested in linguistics acquire specialized knowledge of the factors that control and constrain the production and perception of speech. The course introduces the essential elements of speech sounds and empirical studies in phonetics. Students will learn to describe how speech sounds are produced in the human vocal tract, their form in the acoustic medium, and how listeners process the speech signal. We will discuss such issues as the physical and physiological factors in the production and perception of speech. We will explain the anatomical, physiological, aerodynamic, and non-muscular forces that underlie the articulatory movements yielding the acoustic speech waveform. Various speech motor control theories will be included. Additionally, we will discuss phonemic transcriptions, transcriptions of consonants and vowels, and broad and narrow transcriptions. Finally, computer programs that can analyze sounds and components will be used to analyze speech sounds. The focus will be on interpreting spectrograms and formants, pitch, duration, and other relevant components of prosody. We will explore how to make instrumental measurements of speech sounds and use such data to answer questions about the speech.
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course Y
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
1. Describe essential elements in speech sounds.
2. Identify physical and physiological factors in the production and perception of speech.
3. Understand articulatory movements and the acoustic speech waveform.
4. Apply theories to authentic speech sounds.
topic Discussion/Production
Exercises
Discussion
Lecturing
Attendance
Written Presentation
Oral Presentation
Assignment
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Week 1: Orientation, introductory concepts
Week 2 Week 2: Articulation and Acoustics
Week 3 Week 3: International Phonetic Alphabets (IPA) and transcription
Week 4 Week 4: The Consonants of English
Week 5 Week 5: The Consonants of English
Week 6 Week 6: English Vowels
Week 7 Week 7: English Vowels
Week 8 Week 8: English Words and Sentences
Week 9 Week 9: Midterm Review
Week 10 Week 10: Airstream Mechanisms and Phonation Types
Week 11 Week 11: Syllables and Suprasegmental Features
Week 12 Week 12: Syllables and Suprasegmental Features
Week 13 Week 13: Stress, Tone, and Pitch Accent Languages
Week 14 Week 14: Stress, Tone, and Pitch Accent Languages
Week 15 Week 15: Colloquium: Speech Production and Perception
Week 16 Week 16: Independent Study (I)
Week 17 Week 17: Independent Study (II)
Week 18 Week 18: Final Project
Evaluation
Assignments: 20%
Midterm review: 30%
Final project: 30%
Oral presentation: 10%
Discussion questions and feedback: 10%
Textbook & other References
Textbook
Ladefoged, Peter, and Keith Johnson. 2011. A Course in Phonetics. 6th Edition. Cengage Learning.

References
Štefan Beňuš. 2021. Investigating Spoken English: A Practical Guide to Phonetics and Phonology Using Praat. Springer International Publishing.
Zsiga, Elizabeth, C. 2013. The Sounds of Language. Wiley-Blackwell.
Szczepek-Reed, Beatrice. 2010. Analyzing Conversation: An Introduction to Prosody. Palgrave Macmillan.
Ward, Nigel. 2018. Prosodic Patterns in English Conversation. Cambridge University Press.
Johnson, Keith. 1997. Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. Blackwell.
Ladefoged, Peter, Madieson, Ian. 1996. Sounds of the World’s Languages. Wiley-Blackwell.
Laver, John. 1994. Principles of Phonetics. Cambridge University Press.
Stevens, Keneth. 2000. Acoustic Phonetics. MIT Press.
IPA fonts: http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/charts/IPAlab/IPAlab.htm
The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive: http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
NCHU iLearning (https://lms2020.nchu.edu.tw/)
Office Hours
By appointment.
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