Working Calendar: Below is my initial idea about how the semester will go. I’ll be changing it as we go along, though.

Readings: All readings in the calendar below are from Ladefoged’s A Course in Phonetics, 5^th Ed. Note that supporting audio material can be found on the web, and pointers to it are included with each reading assignment. There are, in addition, lots of other language examples which can be found in the UCLA archive.

Handouts: Pdf’s and other links are also included below for each of the relevant days.

Week/Beginning	Monday	Wednesday	Friday
1 January 8	Introduction and Logistics	Physico-linguistics Men_in Hallway Read: Ladefoged, Ch. 1	Representing Dynamic Events Resonance Spectrograms Audio_example
2 January 15	NO CLASSES	Transcription s vs. s Audio example sh vs sh Audio example Never the same Audio example What is it? What is it? Instructions for getting and using your own copy of wavesurfer are here. Read: Ladefoged, Chs. 2 & 3	Hardware
3 January 22	Transcribing Consonants: Constrictions	Additional Consonant Stuff Vowel Intro Affricates Audio example Audio: fricative voicing Audio: stop voicing Articulating R	Transcription Issues (from Assignment 2).
4 January 29	Vowel System Read: Ladefoged, Ch. 4	Questions about Vowels Read: Ch. 9 (pp. 211 – 219) Dimension 1: height Dimension 2: backness Dimension 3: rounding/rhoticity	Vowel Articulation and Acoustics Vowel Articulation Articulatory vowel structure Two models of vowel contrasts
5 February 5	Details Details, How many details? VOT Audio after s Audio Flapping L-devoicing Audio	Types of Transcription.	Phonetics as More than Just Details Which vowel is it? Which vowel is it (again)?
6 February 12	IPA Principles: Universality, Distinctiveness, and Segmentalism IPA principles	Class Cancelled	MID-TERM I Review guide for the mid-term
7 February 19	Transcriptions	Transcription Exam 1 Read: Ladefoged, Ch. 7 Funny Obstruents	More Funny Obstruents
8 February 26	Palatography and Classification of Points of Articulation Funny Sonorants	Liquids Rhotics	Aerodynamics: From Volume to Turbulent Sound Pulmonic
9 March 5	Transcription Discussion Getting Force Muscular Coordination Read: Ladefoged, Ch. 6	Pulmonic Hardware and Function Laryngeal Structures	Laryngeal Function
	SPRING	BREAK
10 March 19	Voicing, Aerodynamics & Glottal Contrasts Pressure by glottal position	Airstream Mechanisms Clicks	Classification by Aerodynamic Mechanisms
11 March 26	Review	Transcription Exam 2 Prosody	MID-TERM II Review guide for the mid-term
12 April 2	Physical, Auditory, and Linguistics Properties Problems with the IPA Read: Ladefoged, Chs. 5 & 10	Using Fundamental Frequency Stress, Tone, and Accent Guide to Terms	Intonation and Other Marginalized Things Notes on Intonation
13 April 9	English Intonation Examples	Other Suprasegmentals	F0 review Stress & Quantity Dynamic Stuff
14 April 16	Basic Acoustics: Waves and Harmonics. Source-Filter Theory Source & filter	Estimating Aspects of the Source Read: Ladefoged, Ch. 8	Estimating Aspects of the Filter Plastic tubes Head tubes
15 April 23	Vowel Acoustics In waveform (example from Language Files) Read: Ladefoged, Ch. 9	From Vowels to Consonants Vowel to Glides Vowel to Obstruents Fricative spectrograms Consonant Acoustics Labial stops Coronal stops Velar stops	Review Review Sheet Mystery Spectrograms
Exam			May 4 10:15: FINAL EXAM