L541: Introductory Phonetics
Spring 2012

[General Information | Lecture | Lab ]

Instructor: Ken de Jong	Assistant instructor: Terrin Tamati
Office: Memorial Hall 404	Office: Psychology 186
Phone: 856-1307	Phone: na
E-mail: kdejong @ …	E-mail: ttamati @ ..
Office Hours: Tuesday & Wednesday 12 – 1 pm	Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday 4:00 – 5:00 pm

Announcements:

• Welcome to the Introductory Phonetics! Please visit this site regularly to update the class information.
• Information on the class schedule and lecture handouts can be found at: http://www.iub.edu/~l541/schedule.htm
• Information on the labs can be found at: http://www.iub.edu/~l541/lab.htm
• You must be enrolled in a lab section to be enrolled in this course.

Lecture:	Monday & Wednesday 2:30 – 3:45 pm	Psychology 111
Laboratory:	Thursday 1:00 – 2:15 pm	Memorial Hall 401
	Thursday  4:00 – 5:15 pm
	Friday 9:30 – 10:45 am

General Information:

Introductory Phonetics is designed to introduce students to the various facets of phonetic investigation.  In this course, we hope to cover the basics of speech production and speech acoustics as they are relevant to the expression of linguistic structures. Along the way, we hope to develop basic skills for linguistic investigation of speech behavior. The first part of the course will focus on the segmental analysis of speech, and we will work on the ability to analyze speech by means of the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet). The later part of the course will focus on understanding various quantitative aspects of speech. Most important, we will introduce you to a range of acoustic techniques for analyzing speech, and help you through a short experimental investigation of some linguistic phenomenon of your choice. 

Required Texts:

• Henning Reetz & Allard Jongman, Phonetics: Transcription, Production, Acoustics & Perception, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
• Keith Johnson, Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics, 3rd ed., Blackwell, 2003
• Various handouts made available through various means.

Supplementary Texts:

You are not required to acquire these texts, though they are excellent references and will likely be useful supplements to the course work.

• Gloria Borden, Katherine Harris, and Lawrence Raphael, Speech Science Primer, Any ed., Williams and Wilkins, 1994, ff.
• Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson, The Sounds of the World's Languages, Blackwell, 1997.

Requirements:

1. Homework assignments: Homework assignments.  There will be weekly homework assignments (which will trail off toward the end of the semester in favor of the course project).  These assignments will entail performing various analyses, beginning with transcriptional analyses of speech.  Other parts will entail performing exercises related to the course project, and to various kinds of data related to subject matter in the lectures.

2. Exams: There will be a mid-term and a final exam and two transcription exams in the discussion sections, whose dates will be specified at the beginning of the semester.

3. A Term Project: This project will concern the acoustic investigation of a topic of your choice, filtered by Terrin, and me.  Projects will be done in collaboration with (usually) two others in the class, and will involve the collection of relevant records, data-extraction analyses of these, analysis of this data, and a thoughtful write-up of the project and its results.  More information on this project will be provided shortly -- including an appropriate schedule of events.

Grade calculation will be based on the following formula

Homework	--20%		Mid-term	--20%
Transcription exams	--15%	+	Final	--25%
Project	--20%

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