Instrumental Phonetics 2019

1. Introduction to Acoustic Phonetics

• (17.01.2019) Lec 1, additional materials on waves
• (17.01.2019) Lab 1: Praat. Symbols for consonats, vowels and diacritics
• HW 1 (31.01.2019) I’ll send you a chapter from some hadbook on articulation and sounds types. We will have a little test on it.
• HW 2 (due to 31.01.2019):
  • Create the annotation for this sound file containing words bek’:ub (hot), wuk:udu (fall down), tʃ’ek’a (foot) and t’uka (goat). Here is an example.
  • Send the .TextGrid file to the course assistant Katya Aplonova with topic Instrumental Phonetics: HW 1

2. Vowels. Formants

• (24.01.2019) Lec 2
• sound
• TextGrid
• extracted formant values
• Lennes M. (2002) Calculate segment durations
• Kawahara (??) Extract formant chart
• R script for the visualisation of duration

3. Sonorants

• (31.01.2019) Lec 3
• (31.01.2019) Lab 3
• Andi nasals

4. Obstruents

• (12.02.2019) Lec 4
• (12.02.2019) Lab 4
• fricatives, fricatives’ TextGrid, Extracted data: ɬ, s, sh, x, χ
• fricatives’ R script

5. Prosody

• (14.02.2019) Lec 5

6. Guess the word

• (28.02.2019) Lab 6
• plosives, plosives’ TextGrid, Extracted data: plosives’ duration
• plosives’ R script
• HW 3 (due to 07.03.2019):
  • watch all videos about palatography 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
• HW 4 (due to 14.03.2019):
  • Download the sound and the TextGrid file
  • Annotate CD and VOT
  • Create three pictures with R that we discussed in class (example: pic 1, pic 2, pic 3)
  • Write a short text analysing results: what is the difference in CD and VOT values between stops and affricates, ejectives and non-ejectives?
  • Send the .TextGrid file, pics and text to the course assistant Katya Aplonova with topic Instrumental Phonetics: HW 2

7. Methods of phonetic investigation

• (07.03.2019) Lec 7
• (07.03.2019) Lab 7

8. Perception

• (14.03.2019) Lec 8

9. Speech recognition and synthesis

• (21.03.2019) Lec 9
• (21.03.2019) Praat Vocal Toolkit, Wavelet sound explorer

10. Fieldwork. Phonological and phonetic description

• (23.03.2019)

EXAM

Useful links

• Interactive tutorials on waves
• the real-time MRI IPA charts

Reference:

• Ashby, M., J. Maidment (2005). Introducing phonetic science. Cambridge University Press.
• Bickford, A. C., R. Floyd (2006). Articulatory Phonetics: Tools for Analyzing the World’s Languages SIL International.
• Boersma, P., D. Weenink (2013). Praat: doing phonetics by computer (version 5.3.51)[computer program]. retrieved 2 june 2013.
• Fant, G. (1971). Acoustic theory of speech production: with calculations based on X-ray studies of Russian articulations, Volume 2. Walter de Gruyter.
• Fuchs, S., M. Toda„ M. Żygis (2010). Turbulent sounds: an interdisciplinary guide, Volume 21. Walter de Gruyter.
• Fulop, S. (2011). Speech spectrum analysis. Springer Science & Business Media.
• Gick, B., I. Wilson D. Derrick (2012). Articulatory phonetics. John Wiley & Sons.
• Gordon, M., P. Ladefoged (2001). Phonation types: a cross-linguistic overview. Journal of Phonetics 29 (4), 383–406.
• Harrington, J. (2010). Phonetic analysis of speech corpora. John Wiley & Sons.
• Hon Hunt, E. (2009). Acoustic Characterization of the Glides /j/ and /w/ in American English
• Johnson, K. (2011). Acoustic and auditory phonetics. John Wiley & Sons.
• Ladefoged, P., S. F. Disner (2012). Vowels and consonants. John Wiley & Sons. Ladefoged, P., I. Maddieson. (1996). The Sounds of the World’s Languages Oxford, Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers.
• Rorabaugh, C. B. (2010). Notes on Digital Signal Processing: Practical Recipes for Design, Analysis and Implementation Prentice Hall