1 About the course

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I expect some theoretical knowledge
- read 2. chapter from (Gussenhoven and Jacobs 2017)
- see the presentation on Phon research from 13.09.2021
- be able to use IPA symbols
I expect some basic R skills:
- import .csv files to R
- dplyr, ggplot2

1.1 Recording in case you missed the class

1.2 Homeworks

1.2.1 HW 1 (due to 23.02.2022):

Create an annotation for those sound file containing words mza ‘lamp’, mzə ‘moon’, mtsa ‘fire’, mtsə ‘lie’. Here is an example:

Extract vowel duration and formants and plot them:

Send the result .TextGrid and your .R code files to the course assistant Anya Tsyzova with the topic Instrumental Phonetics: HW 1.

1.2.2 HW 2 (due to 23.03.2022):

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 Anya Tsyzova with the topic Instrumental Phonetics: HW 2.

1.3 Useful references:

(Ashby and Maidment 2005)
(Bickford and Floyd 2006)
(Boersma and Weenink 2021)
(Fant 1960a)
(Fuchs, Toda, and Żygis 2010)
(Fulop 2011)
(Gick, Wilson, and Derrick 2012)
(Gordon and Ladefoged 2001)
(Harrington 2010)
(Hunt 2009)
(Johnson 2004)
(P. Ladefoged and Disner 2012)
(Maddieson and Ladefoged 1996)
(Rorabaugh 2010)
(Grama 2022)
(Fridland and Kendall 2022)

References

Ashby, M., and J. Maidment. 2005. Introducing Phonetic Science. Cambridge University Press.

Bickford, A. C., and R. Floyd. 2006. Articulatory Phonetics: Tools for Analyzing the World’s Languages. SIL International.

Boersma, P., and D. Weenink. 2021. “Praat: Doing Phonetics by Computer.” http://www.praat.org/.

———. 1960a. Acoustic Theory of Speech Production. 2. Walter de Gruyter.

Fridland, Valerie, and Tyler Kendall. 2022. “Managing Sociophonetic Data in a Study of Regional Variation.” In The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management, edited by Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell, Eve Koller, and Lauren B. Collister, 237–47. The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12200.001.0001.

Fuchs, Susanne, Martine Toda, and Marzena Żygis. 2010. Turbulent Sounds: An Interdisciplinary Guide. Vol. 21. Walter de Gruyter.

Fulop, S. A. 2011. Speech Spectrum Analysis. Springer Science & Business Media.

Gick, B., I. Wilson, and D. Derrick. 2012. Articulatory Phonetics. John Wiley & Sons.

Gordon, M., and P. Ladefoged. 2001. “Phonation Types: A Cross-Linguistic Overview.” Journal of Phonetics 29 (4): 383–406.

Grama, J. 2022. “Managing Legacy Data in a Sociophonetic Study of Vowel Variation and Change.” In The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management, edited by Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell, Eve Koller, and Lauren B. Collister, 221–36. The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12200.001.0001.

Gussenhoven, C., and H. Jacobs. 2017. Understanding Phonology. Routledge.

Harrington, J. 2010. Phonetic Analysis of Speech Corpora. John Wiley & Sons.

Hunt, Elisabeth Hon. 2009. “Acoustic Characterization of the Glides/j/and/w/in American English.” PhD thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Johnson, K. 2004. “Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics.” Phonetica 61 (1): 56–58.

Ladefoged, P., and S. F. Disner. 2012. Vowels and Consonants. John Wiley & Sons.

Maddieson, I., and P. Ladefoged. 1996. The Sounds of the World’s Languages. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Rorabaugh, C. B. 2010. Notes on Digital Signal Processing: Practical Recipes for Design, Analysis and Implementation, Portable Documents. Prentice Hall.

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