LING 411/511 Phonetics

Winter 2006

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~guion/LING411.htm (login: phonetics, pass: guion)

Lecture: M 11-12:20 room TBA and F 11-12:20 41 LIB

Discussion 9:00-9:50 Th or 10:00-10:50 Th 113 Pacific

Prof: Susan Guion	GTF: Kyungho Kang
220 Straub, ph. 346-3682	245 Straub, ph. 346-3923
guion@uoregon.edu	kkang@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: W 10-11, Th 12-1	Office Hours: Tu, Th 11-12

 
Required Reading
 At bookstore and on reserve at Knight
Ladefoged, P. 2005. Vowels and Consonants (2nd ed).. Blackwell. + CD ROM
Denes, P. & Pinson, E. 1993. The Speech Chain (2nd ed). Freeman.
Handbook of the International Phonetic Association. 1999. Cambridge.
 
 On e-reserve at Knight (login: winter06 pass: hail)
Kent, R. & Read, C. (1992). The Acoustic Analysis of Speech (Ch2). Singular. 
Johnson, K. (2003). Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics (Ch 4). Blackwell.
 
Required for Graduate Students: (articles on e-reserve)
Hura, S., Lindblom, B., Diehl, R. 1992. On the role of perception in shaping phonological
 assimilation rules. Language and Speech 35, 59-72.
Liberman, A. & Mattingly I. 1985. The motor theory of speech perception revised. Cognition 21, 1-36. 
Lindblom, B. 1990. Explaining phonetic variation: A sketch of the H&H theory. In Hardcastle 
 and Marchal (eds.), Speech Production and Speech Modeling, 403-439. Kluwer.
Stevens, K. 1989. On the quantal nature of speech. Journal of Phonetics 17, 3-45.
 
Suggested Reading (on reserve at Knight)
Ladefoged, P. 1996. Elements of Acoustic Phonetics (2nd ed). University of Chicago Press.
Ladefoged, P. & Maddieson, I. 1996. The Sounds of the World’s Languages. Blackwell.
Pullum, G. & Ladusaw, W.1996. Phonetic symbol guide (2nd ed). University of Chicago Press.
 
Requirements

40%	Homework Homework is listed on the syllabus the date you should start working on it. It is due on the date specified. Unexcused late homework will be lowered by the equivalent of one letter grade for being up to one week late. Each additional week late will result in another letter grade deduction. (HW1 10%, HW2 10%, HW3 20%)
30%	Midterm Exam
30%	Final Exam or Paper (graduate students must write paper undergraduates have the option of final exam or paper)
	Paper topic must be approved by the professor by the 8th week of the term. Papers must summarize the relevant literature and report an original investigation within the scope of a pilot study. Paper target length 15 pages for graduate, 10 pages for undergraduate.

Inclement Weather Policy

If the public schools in the Eugene-Springfield area are closed due to weather conditions, we will also not hold class. If I have phone and electricity service at home, I will post an announcement for class cancellation on our Blackboard site. In any case, those who believe that the road conditions from home are dangerous are urged to stay there. Students will be allowed to make-up any coursework missed due to inclement weather with no penalty.

Date	Topic	Reading	Homework
M 1/9	Introduction/The Larynx
F 1/13	The Larynx cont.	L: Ch 2 D & P: Ch4, 47-58
M 1/16	MLK Holiday-No Class
F 1/20	Sound Waves	L: Ch 1 D & P: Ch 3
M 1/23	Vowel Production	L: Ch 12 D & P: Ch 4, 64-68	HW1: English Vowels (due 2/6)
F 1/27	English Vowels	L: Ch 3
M 1/30	Acoustic Theory of Speech Production	Kent & Read: Ch 2 (on reserve), 13-20
F 2/3	Vowel Acoustics	Kent & Read: Ch 2, 21-31 L: Ch 4
M 2/6	Consonant Production	L: Ch 11 D & P: Ch 4, 58-64, 68-71	HW2: Voicing (due 2/17)
F 2/10	Stop, Fricative, Affricate Acoustics	L: Ch 6 Kent & Read: Ch 2, 31-36, 38-39
M 2/13	Nasal & Approximate Acoustics	L: Ch 6 cont. Kent & Read: Ch 2, 36-38, 39
F 2/17	Actions of the larynx	L: Ch 13
M 2/20	MIDTERM
F 2/24	More Consonants	L: Ch 14
M 2/27	More Consonants	L: Ch 14
F 3/3	More vowels	L: Ch 15	HW3: Perceptual Confusion Experiment (due 3/17)
M 3/6	Speech Perception: Invariance and Segmentation	D & P: Ch 8 Liberman & Mattingly (1985) Stevens (1989)
F 3/10	Speech Perception: Experimental Methods	Johnson: Ch 4
M 3/13	H&H theory	Lindblom (1990)
F 3/17	Phonetics and Phonology	L Ch 15 Hura et al. (1992)
Th 3/23	FINAL 10:15-12:15

Academic Honesty

All work submitted in this course must be your own and produced exclusively for this course. The use of sources (ideas, quotations, paraphrases) must be properly acknowledged and documented. Any suspected dishonesty will be taken seriously and reported. Students found guilty of academic dishonesty will fail the course.

Students with Disabilities

If you have a disability and are anticipating needing accommodation in this course, make arrangements to see me soon. Also, request a letter from disability services verifying your disability and stating needed accommodation.