EXPERIMENTAL METHODS ON PHONETICS Fall 2008
I nstructor:陈忠敏Chén, Zhōngmǐn [t♣Hən35 t♣ʊŋ55 min214]
Location/Time:上海师大语言所101/Sunday
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Purpose and goal:
This course is designed with a practical goal: to train students in the techniques of experimental phonetic in order to prepare them for more advance research in phonetics and phonology within linguistics, speech technology, communication disorder, and language acquisition. It will provide the student with hands-on experience in methods of experimental phonetic research, including audio recording, acoustic speech database construction, recording and interpreting speech air flow and pressure, static palatography, and the design of perception tests. In addition, students receive training in writing up experimental results for publication.
Prerequisites:
It is better for you to have finished ‘Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology’and ‘Experimental Phonology and Sound Change’ which I taught last year at Zhejiang and Shanghai Universities, before you take this course..
Since this is a bilingual course (required text, reading materials, homework assignments, project introduction written in English; but don’t worry, you cou ld use Chinese to answer questions and write the project, etc.), a good English-reading ability is obligatorily required for all students who enroll in the course.
Coursework:
Reading assignments; in-class participation; six group homework projects.
Textbook:
•Ladefoged, Peter. 2003 Phonetic Data Analysis: An Introduction to Fieldwork and Instrumental Techniques. Cambridge: Blackwell.
•Clark, John & Yallop, Colin 1996. Introduction to phonetics and phonology. Second edition, Blackwell 此书作为“当代国外语言学与应用语言学文库”的一种在中国外语教学与研究出版社出版
•Ladefoged, Peter 1996. Elements of Acoustic Phonetics(2th ed.). The University of Chicago Press.
Reference books:
Clark, John & Yallop, Colin 1996. Introduction to phonetics and phonology.
Second edition, Blackwell 此书作为“当代国外语言学与应用语言学文库”的一种在中国外语教学与研究出版社出版
Baken R.J. and Robert F. Orlikoff 2000. Clinical Measurement of Speech and V oice(2nd ed)
Singular Thomson Learing.
Borden G. J., Harris K. S & Raphael L. J. 2003 Speech Science Primer, Physiology, Acoustics, and Perception of Speech (4th ed) Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Catford, J. C. 1977. Fundamental Problems in Phonetics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Hardcastle, William J. & John Laver ed. 1997. The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences. Blackwell. Johnson Keith 2003. Acoustic & Auditory Phonetics. Second edition, Blackwell. Ladefoged, Peter 1996. Elements of Acoustic Phonetics(2th ed.). The University of Chicago Press
Ladefoged, Peter 2006. A Course in Phonetics (5th ed.). Thomas Wadsworth..
Stevens, Kenneth 1999. Acoustic Phonetics. MIT Press.
Rosen, Stuart and Peter Howell 1991. Signals and Systems for Speech and Hearing. Academic Press.
Homework projects: The class will be divided into research teams who will work on homework projects together. One student of the team will presents results during the lectures for each topic. The homework projects are the focus of the course, and will occupy much of our time together in the class meetings. The projects are designed to be specific enough to be doable, while introducing students to general research methods in experimental phonetics. Each student should turn in a final project based on his/her own interesting topic related the experimental phonetics in the end of the long semester.
