Instrumental Phonetics 2021

Final Mark =0.6 \(\times\) (HW) + 0.4 \(\times\) (Exam)

1. Introduction to Acoustic Phonetics

• (20.01.2021) Lec 1 (video)

  • additional materials on waves

• (27.01.2021) Lec2 (video)

  • database of bird calls (and it is not the only one)
  • marine mammal sound database
  • invisibilia podcast episode on sounds

• (27.01.2021) Lab 1: Praat. Symbols for consonats, vowels and diacritics

• HW 1 (due to 10.02.2021):

  • 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 Nastya Safonova with the topic Instrumental Phonetics: HW 1

• (03.02.2021) Lec3 (video)

• (03.02.2021) Lab

  • sound
  • TextGrid (press Ctrl+S in order to save it to your PC)
  • phonfieldwork

• (10.02.2021) Lec4 (video)

• (10.02.2021) Lab4

  • Andi nasals
  • R script for visualising spectral slices

• (17.02.2021) Lec5 (video)

• (17.02.2021) Lab5

  • fricatives, fricatives’ TextGrid, Extracted data: ɬ, s, sh, x, χ
  • fricatives’ R script
  • plosives, plosives’ TextGrid, Extracted data: plosives’ duration
  • plosives’ R script

• (24.02.2021) Lec6 on prosody (video)

• (24.02.2021) Lec6 on reading spectrograms

• (10.03.2021) Lec7 on methods of phonetic research (video)

• (10.03.2021) Lec7 on perception (video)

  • Audition and anatomy
  • McGurk effect
  • Endoscopy (larynx)
  • Palatography
  • Electropalatography
  • Ultrasound tongue imaging (UTI)
  • MRI

• (17.03.2021) Lec8 (video)

• (25.03.2021) Lec9 video

  • pdf with word spectrum
  • autograding google form with more tasks

• (14.04.2021) Lec10 (video)

  • files for training
  • R script

• HW 2 (due to 28.04.2021):

  • make a recording of syllables [ka], [ki], [ko], [ku] pronounced by two different people
  • use phonfiledwork and Praat for merging and preannotation sounds
  • manually adjust annotation after phonfieldwork
  • create a plot that analyze vowel duration split by speaker and vowel (see the R script from the last lecture)
  • Send your sound, .TextGrid and obtained plot to the course assistant Nastya Safonova with the topic Instrumental Phonetics: HW 2

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