Ling 415/515: Phonetics

Webpage updated 8/10/2010 3:03 PM

See Syllabus or download it here (UPDATED)

Updated Calendar here

 

Announcements:

Quiz 6 on Tues 8/10

Final is Fri 8/13 3:30-5:50 in our regular classroom

Final Option: Wed 8/11/10 12-2 in East Hall 109

 

Handout HW 7 download here:

http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/faciliti/teaching/Ex2/handouts/Ex2__Narrow_English.pdf

You should be able to access the sound files if you use Internet Explorer.

If the document opens in Adobe or Safari, you may not get to the sound files.

Download answers here

 

Handout HW 8 download here as doc or here as PDF

HW 8 answers here as doc or here as PDF

 

Download HW 9 here as PDF

 

Handout HW 10 download here as PDF

 

Handout HW 11 download here as PDF

Answers to HW 11 here

 

Some helpful websites for studying IPA:

Book website: http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/

??? Not working so use your CD ROM

 

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/flash/flashin.htm

http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/Phonetics.html

http://www.agendaweb.org/phonetic.html

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#

 

Info about Grad project here

 

Click here for a blank IPA consonant chart

Click here for modified IPA vowel chart and blank chart too!

Click here for a blank English consonant and vowel chart

Click here to download a PDF copy of English consonants and vowels chart

Click here to download a PDF copy of English consonant descriptive terms

Click here to download a PDF copy of English vowel descriptive terms

Download vowel sound examples from exclamations here

 

{FOR GRADS} Click here for grad project info

Click here to download Swadeshs 100 word list

and Gudshinskys 200-word list of basic vocabulary

 

ACOUSTICS PROJECT (Due 8/13/2010):

Download Acoustics Project Answer Sheet here (please note that there are IPA fonts

In this doc so if they don’t show up, try using a PSU computer) click here for pdf

Download or view Acoustics Project Spectrograms/Waveforms here

(warning! - It is much easier to see these on the computer than on paper)

Click here for tips on how to work on this project

 

Info on Quizzes:

Quiz 1: Over chapters 1 and 2 Should be able to give descriptive terms for consonants and vowels.

Should be able to identify places and manners of articulation of English sounds.

Should be able to fill in a blank consonant chart.

 

Quiz 2: there will be transcription of nonsense English-type words. You should be able to transcribe some in broad and some in narrow (applying the rules of Eng consonants). Also be able to transcribe English sentence in broad and narrow (which means apply at least 3 of the rules). Also, answer short question and be sure that if the questions asks about 2 sounds that you discuss BOTH sounds and don’t assume by talking about 1 sound and not the other that I will fill in the blanks. Also, pay special attention to the difference between voiced/voiceless stops and aspiration and how all the phonetic details really work versus what we think is going on!

 

Quiz 3: there will be transcription of nonsense English-type words.  You should be able to transcribe some in broad and some in narrow (applying the rules of Eng consonants and vowels).  Should be able to group vowels based on what they share in common (height, front, rounding, etc).  Fill in a blank vowel chart for English

–       http://web.pdx.edu/~connjc/Blank%20English%20consonant%20and%20vowel%20chart.pdf

 

Quiz 4: Transcription matching; Be sure you know all 4 phonation types (states of the glottis) with example symbols and what the different airstream mechanisms we talked about are with example; also be able to discuss VOT with respect to what the difference between the voiced versus voiceless stops at the beginning of a word in English really is

 

Quiz 5: A lot to memorize – like Quiz 1 with IPA symbols and articulatory description matching – blank consonant chart – and transcription matching

 

Quiz 6: Fill in a blank vowel chart.  Similar tasks to HW 11 – grouping vowels together and matching.  Also, transcription matching (will be minimal pairs).

 

 

Lecture Notes/Power Point presentations

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Intro/Chap1: Week 1 6/22/10 & 6/24/10

Answers to HW1 and HW2

Chap2/Chap3: Week 2 6/29/10 & 7/1/10

Some Answers to HW3 Ex H and HW4 Ex G

Chap3/Chap4: Week 3 7/6/10 & 7/8/10

Chap4/Chap5: Week 4 7/13/10 & 7/15/10

Chap5/Chap8: Week 5 7/20/10 & 7/22/10

Chap 6: Week 6 7/26/10

Chap 7: Week 6 & 7 7/28/10 & 8/3/10

Chap 9/10/Final Review: Week 7 & 8 8/3/10, 8/5/10 & 8/10/10