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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/Undergraduate | 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 |
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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. |
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Assignments: 20% Midterm review: 30% Final project: 30% Oral presentation: 10% Discussion questions and feedback: 10% |
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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/ |
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