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INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Diane OEmail: ohalad@u.arizona.e TA: Naomi Ogasawara Email: naomi703@email.a TEXTS AND READINGS Ladefoged, P. (2001). A CLadefoged, P. (1996). ElemHandouts on topics not cov COURSE DESCRIPTION Audience: this course is anand taught by linguistics fain the Speech & Hearing S Goals: this course will intrstrong lab component. Weproduction of speech, but wworld’s languages. In addiwill learn how to visually rwill have, at the very leastrecognize individual speec Required background: no pcourse. That said, please bhaving prior knowledge ofpatience when we cover toenhance (and not detract frand ask questions both insadvantage of each other’s

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ourse in Phonetics (4TH EDITION). Boston, MA: Heinle and Heinle.

ents of Acoustic Phonetics (2ND EDITION). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ered in the texts

upper division course on phonetics that is homed in the Linguistics Department culty. It is an elective for students in the linguistics major and minor, for students ciences, and for any other interested individuals.

oduce you to the fundamentals of articulatory and acoustic phonetics and has a will not only explore the intricacies of the vocal tract and its involvement in the

e will also learn how to represent (and endeavor to produce) all the sounds of the tion, we will cover the nature of sound waves as related to the human voice and epresent (and decode) the sound waves of speech. By the end of the course you

, the knowledge to transcribe the speech of any language and of any speaker and to h sounds in a visual representation of the speech stream.

revious knowledge of phonetics is assumed and there are no prerequisites to this ear in mind that the class composition is usually varied with a number of students linguistics/phonetics. I ask those of you with some phonetics background for pics with which you may already be familiar and that you use that knowledge to om) the classroom experience for everyone. I encourage all students to share ideas ide and outside of the classroom (in study groups, for example) and to take strengths to achieve success in your work for this course.

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EXPECTATIONS 1. Each student is expected to abide by the UA Code of Academic Integrity (short version: no plagiarism and no

cheating). If you’re not sure what the short version means, further details can be found at: http://w3.arizona.edu/~studpubs/policies/cacaint.htm.

2. Each student is expected to behave in accordance with the UA Code of Student Conduct (short version: polite, respectful behavior). If you’re not sure what the short version means, further details can be found at: http://w3.arizona.edu/%7Estudpubs/policies/ppainpg.html.

3. Each student is expected to attend class (for the whole class period) and to contribute to class discussion. 4. Each student is expected to do the assigned readings by the date indicated on the syllabus. 5. Each student is expected to complete all written assignments on time. “On time” means at the beginning of class

the day an assignment is due. If you know you will not be in class when an assignment is due, you may turn in the assignment early. This arrangement must be made with me no later than one week before the date the assignment is due. Absolutely no late assignments will be accepted. I am serious.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

REQUIREMENT POINTS DESCRIPTION Attendance

50 Attendance will be documented, although students may miss up to two classes with no penalty; 1.85 points will be deducted for each additional day missed.

In-Class Assignments

100 Participation in and completion of in-class assignments (4 assignments, 25 points each). IF YOU MISS AN IN-CLASS ASSIGNMENT, YOU CANNOT MAKE IT UP.

Take-Home Assignments (5) 450 6 homework assignments will be distributed but the lowest score of the six will be dropped. You must do all six assignments in order to drop your lowest score (i.e. if you only do five assignments, all five scores count).

Exams (2) 400 200 points per exam EXTRA CREDIT You may earn 15 extra credit points for this class by participating in Naomi Ogasawara’s (your TA’s) experiment. Participation means you sign-up for the experiment AND KEEP THE APPOINTMENT. Please treat the appointment as you would any other appointment with a doctor, professor, or friend – notify Naomi by email or phone/message if you cannot make your scheduled day/time for any reason. Details and sign-up sheet forthcoming! RECOMMENDED, FREE SOFTWARE • IPA Fonts for your computer are available free from the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) at the URL below.

The SIL Encore IPA93 fonts are the most recent and there are versions for most PC and MAC platforms: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=encore-ipa-download

• PRAAT (which means “speech” in Dutch) is a great, free, speech analysis program. We’ll be using this in class later in the semester but it’s fun to play around with at any time. The URL is: http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

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CIP stands for “Course in Phonetics”, E

HW stands for “Homework” and ICA st

DAY DATE TOPIC ARTICULATORY PHONETIC

T 8/24 Introduction R 8/26 " T 8/31 Consonant Articulation R 9/2 " " T 9/7 " " R 9/9 Vowel Articulation T 9/14 " " R 9/16 " " T 9/21 Phonemic/Phonetic TranscrR 9/23 " " " T 9/28 " " " R 9/30 Suprasegmentals/DisordereT 10/5 " " R 10/7 Catch-up/Review T 10/12 EXAM 1 ACOUSTIC PHONETICS R 10/14 Go over exam/Begin BasicsT 10/19 Continue Basics R 10/21 Wave Analysis, SpectrograT 10/26 " " " R 10/28 More Vowel Acoustics T 11/2 " " " R 11/4 Consonant Acoustics T 11/9 " " R 11/11 VETERAN’S DAY – NO CLAS

T 11/16 Lab Day at ICL, SSCI 224 R 11/18 Spectrogram Reading T 11/23 Lab Day at ICL, SSCI 224 R 11/25 THANKSGIVING – NO CLASS

T 11/30 Catch-up/Review R 12/2 EXAM 2 T 12/7 Go over Exam, Application * We will be reading some chapters ito topics we have not covered yet.

SCHEDULE (subject to change)

AP for “Elements of Acoustic Phonetics”; numbers indicate chapters

ands for “In-Class Assignment”

READINGS* EXAMS HW DUE ICA S

CIP 1, 6 CIP 3, 7 ICA 1 CIP 4, handout HW 1 HW 2

iption CIP 2 ICA 2

d Speech CIP 5, 10, handout HW 3 "

EXAM 1

of Acoustics CIP 8 to p. 170; EAP 1, 2

ms, Vowels CIP 8 pp. 170-178, EAP 3, 4 "

EAP 7, 8 to p. 122 HW 4 CIP 8 from p. 178 to end

S ICA 3 Review CIP 8 HW 5 ICA 4

EXAM 2

s of Phonetics HW 6

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