S674: Advanced Seminar:
Vowel Perception in Normal
and Impaired Listeners
Fall 2005

Last Updated: Nov. 2, 2005

Announcements:

1) Students should email DKP with the topic for their final paper for approval by Wed., 11/7.

2) For great vowel shift descriptions from Susie Levi, see:

http://users.ipfw.edu/thompsoc/LingL103/overheads/vowelshift.gif

http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/chapters/pix/greatVowelShift.gif

http://www.hf.ntnu.no/engelsk/staff/johannesson/!oe/texts/lect/emelect/gvs3a_02.htm

3) d' tutorial (from Becca) is at: http://wise.cgu.edu/sdt/

Instructor: Diane Kewley-Port      email kewley@indiana.edu

Class Majordomo email: TBA

Credit Hours:  3.0 Section: 26663

Seminar: Wednesday from 9:00-10:40 am in SPHS C108

 

Course Description: This seminar will be held to discuss papers on theories and models of vowel perception by normal and impaired listeners. The purpose is to discuss recent literature in the field.

Possible Course topics

1. Vowel acoustic cues, formants and global spectral shape
2. Vowel discrimination, including perceptual magnet theory and development
3. Vowel perception and production by Hearing Impaired persons
4. Dynamic theories of vowel perception
5. Cross-language vowel identification
6. Vowel perception by people with cochlear implants
7. Excitation pattern models and auditory processing (May, Sachs, Young) of vowels

Web Site
www.indiana.edu/~acoustic/

email: kewley@indiana.edu