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Introduction to Phonetics II Spring 2013
Instructor:
Karen Steffen Chung 史嘉琳老師
Mondays
1, 2 (8:10-10:00am) in 外教 201 and
Wednesdays 5, 6 (1:20-3:10pm) in 新生大樓 501
Links to all of the currently available CET
articles
Eligibility:
Students who have successfully
completed one semester of an introductory phonetics course; others by permission
only. This course is highly recommended for anyone planning to do advanced
work in phonetics or linguistics. A serious but friendly course!
Like last semester, this semester
every class will be filmed and made available on the NTU
OCW site.
Textbooks:
Ladefoged, Peter & Keith Johnson. 2011. A Course in Phonetics. 6th edition. Boston: Wadsworth Cenage Learning. 322pp. Available at Crane's 文鶴.
Ladefoged, Peter. 2005. Vowels and Consonants: An Introduction to the Sounds of Languages. 2nd edition. Oxford: Blackwell. 206pp. Paper. Includes CD-ROM; same material is also available online (this site is for the 3rd edition). Buy at Crane's 文鶴. (Since the 3rd edition is not yet available at Crane's we will use the 2nd edition.)
Course description:
This course is a continuation
of Karen Chung's Introduction to Phonetics Course; though students
who have taken other phonetics courses are also welcome. The primary goal
of the course will be to finish Ladefoged's A Course in Phonetics,
starting from Chapter Six, "Airstream Mechanisms and Phonation Types",
and to go through the material in Ladefoged/Disner's Vowels and Consonants.
In addition to the usual submission of class notes on Monday, every Wednesday,
students will read and submit a brief summary of one chapter of Vowels
and Consonants along with two questions from the chapter
a week, in this sequence:
February 20-27: Chapter 1 February 27-March 6: Chapter 2 March 6-13: Chapter 3 March 13-20: Chapter 11 March 20-27: Chapter 12 March 27-April 3: Chapter 13 April 3-10: Chapter 14 April 10-17: Chapter 4 |
April 17-24: Chapter 5 April 24-May 1: Chapter 6 May 1-8: Chapter 7 May 8-15: Chapter 8 May 15-22: Chapter 9 May 22-29: Chapter 10 May 29-5: Chapter 15 June 5-10: Chapter 16 (to be handed in on Monday 6/10; 6/12 is a holiday) |
Practical exercises in English pronunciation will be assigned as time
permits, with emphasis on consolidating past progress and identifying and
fine-tuning areas left for improvement. A number of Web assignments will be
given, and students will get more practice in using Praat
and other speech tools. Students are expected to take careful class notes,
including on pronunciation corrections, and will be asked to submit a summary
of their notes every Monday.
Final exam date: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 1:20-3:10pm
新生大樓 501.
Grade calculation:
Students will be graded on
written work, quizzes, oral presentations, and a final, as
well as attendance, class participation, attitude, and progress made.
Syllabus:
Week
1: 2/18, 2/20
2/18:
(1) Enrollment
and other class business;
make sure you have Vowels
and Consonants, by 2/20 at the latest! See reading schedule
above; we will be reading the chapters in a different sequence from the one
in the book. Also note that there is a companion website for the book (see
link in previous line).
(2) Everyone
will share with the class three observations
about language collected over the winter break.
(3) Start reading chapter 6 of Ladefoged/Johnson's A Course in Phonetics.
(4) Class notes are to
be handed in every Monday; in addition, this coming Monday also hand in a
list of pronunciation issues you were corrected on last semseter, based on
your notes, and make a schedule for correcting these issues this semester.
Focus on just 1-3 issues per week so you don't get overwhelmed. Your goal
is to automate the correct form in your brain so that you permanently fix
it (and so we won't have to keep repeating the same corrections in class!).
2/20:
(1) Introduction to Vowels and Consonants; read and summarize chapter
1, and write two questions on the material in the chapter, to be submitted
2/27.
(2) Continue reading chapter 6 of Ladefoged/Johnson's A Course in
Phonetics.
Learn how to pronounce ejectives
Some Chinese translations for "ejective": 外爆音、緊喉音、噴音;
for "egressive": 外呼音、呼氣音、擠氣音、外擠音;
for "creaky voice": 吱嘎(嗓)音;
for "breathy voice": 氣(聲)音
for "plosive": 爆音、爆發音.
Week
2: 2/25, 2/27
2/25:
(1) Hand in your class notes from last week and your list of pronunciation
corrections from last semester, and your weekly plan for correcting them this
semester.
(2) Course, ch. 6.
(3) Read the newest CET article:
9.
大師開講
—
鼻音/m/、/n/ 與
/ŋ/
—— No problen?(上) in
No. 77, May/June 2013.
2/27:
(1) Ask questions on V&C ch. 1, hand in your summary and questions. Next
week's V&C chapter: Ch. 2.
(2) Course, ch. 6.
Week
3: 3/4, 3/6
3/4:
(1) Hand in class notes, and your weekly plan for pronunciation improvement.
(2) Course, ch. 6. Clicks.
3/6:
(1) Ask questions on V&C ch. 2, hand in your summary and questions. Next
week's V&C chapter: Ch. 3.
(2) Dictation: Ejectives.
(3) Course, ch. 6: Clicks; phonation types.
Week
4: 3/11, 3/13
3/11:
(1) Hand in class notes, weekly plan for pronunciation improvement.
(2) Course, ch. 6: phonation types.
3/13:
(1) Ask questions on V&C ch. 3, hand in your summary and questions. Next
week's V&C chapter: Ch. 11.
(2) Dictation.
(3) Course, ch. 6: phonation types.
Week
5: 3/18, 3/20
3/18:
(1) Hand in class notes, weekly plan for pronunciation improvement.
In notes for next Monday, discuss how to bring better English pronunciation
skills to the rest of Taiwan.
(2) Course, ch. 6: phonation types.
3/20:
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 11, summary of ch. 12 for next Wednesday.
(2) Dictation.
(3) Finish Course, ch. 6; go over written and performance exercises.
(4) Test on Course, chapter 6 on Monday 3/25.
Week
6: 3/25, 3/27
3/25:
(1) Hand in notes.
(2) Test on Course chapter 6.
(3) Finish performance exercises, hand in written exercises, ch. 6.
(4) Start on Course, ch. 7.
3/27:
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 12; summarize ch. 13 for next Wednesday.
(2) Dictation.
(3) Course, ch. 7.
Week
7: 4/1
(1) Hand in notes.
(2) Course, ch. 7.
Week
8: 4/8, 4/10
4/8:
(1) Hand in notes.
(2) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 13; summarize ch. 14 for Wednesday 4/10.
(3) Dictation.
(4) Finish Course, ch. 7.
(5) Prepare written and performance exercises for ch. 7 for Wednesday 4/10.
4/10:
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 14; summarize ch. 4 for next Wednesday,
4/17.
(2) Go over written and performance exercises for ch. 7.
(3) Start on Course ch 8.
(4) Test on ch. 7 on Monday 4/15.
(5) Here are the links to all of the currently available CET
articles.
Week 9: 4/15, 4/17
4/15:
(1) Submit class notes; previous work will be returned.
(2) Course ch. 7.
(3) We will go over the written and performance exercises for ch. 7 next class
(Wednesday 4/17).
(4) The test on ch. 7 will be on Monday 4/22 (NOT Wednesday 4/17).
4/17:
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 4; summarize ch. 5 for next Wednesday,
4/22.
(2) Finish Course
ch. 7.
(3) Go
over the written and performance exercises for ch. 7.
(4) The
test on ch. 7 will be on Monday 4/22; there will also be a pronunciation
diagnostic test (from CET pronunciation workshop)
Week
10: 4/22, 4/24
4/22:
(1) Submit class notes; previous work will be returned.
(2) Include in your notes for 4/29: Describe your methods for effectively
training youself to correctly recognize sounds, especially vowel
sounds, out of context or without comparison to similar
sounds.
(3) Test
on ch. 7, plus pronunciation
diagnostic test.
(4) For reference: the speed of sound is 340.29 meters per second; Wikipedia
gives 343.2 m/s;; in many calculations it is often rounded up to 350 meters
per second.
4/24:
(1) Hand
in summary of V&C ch. 5; summarize ch. 6 for next Wednesday, 4/29.
(2) Guitar demonstration of modes of vibration of a string, using guitar,
retractable ruler, electronic tuner, calculator.
(3) Read: Phonetics II web page 23.
Advanced speech analysis tools II: Praat and more.
(4) Read and summarize; includes in class notes to be submitted on Monday
4/29
(in addition to describing methods for identifying
sounds out of context
and without comparisons to similar sounds):
Phonetics I web page 23.
Phonotactics V: Exceptions and odd syllable types
(5) Prepare your pronunciation improvement plan in table
format
and include in your class notes every
week, together with a progress report.
Week
11: 4/29, 5/1
4/29:
(1) Submit class notes; previous work will be returned.
Make sure you read and submit your summary of Phonetics
I web page 23. if you haven't already.
Marked test on ch. 7 will be returned; correct
it carefully and thoroughly, submit on Wednesday 5/1.
(2) Course, ch. 8, starting from p. 187.
(3) Demonstration of didgeridoo and retractable didgeridoo.
(4) Calculations for F2, F2, and F3 for vocal tracts: a. 17.5 cm; b. 16 cm.
(5) Comments on Hiri Motu.
(6) Write essay on the problems relating to "shyness" in Taiwanese
learners;
submit with class notes on Monday 5/6.
5/1:
(1) Submit corrections on test on ch. 7.
(2) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 6; summarize ch. 7 for next Wednesday,
5/8.
(3) Course, ch. 8.
Week
12: 5/6, 5/8
5/6:
(1) Submit class notes, including essay on "shyness and learning";
previous work will be returned.
(2)
Course, ch. 8.
(3) Do the logarithms tutorial; introduction and link on
web page:
11.
Getting ready to learn about decibels: a tutorial on logarithms
5/8:
(1) Thank you for your pronunciation teaching suggestions; however most assume
the availability of qualified teacher to train
students in good pronunciation. Where will we
get such teachers, or teachers to train
the teachers? It's a long, arduous process,
as you all know from your classroom experiences.
(2) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 7; summarize ch. 8 for next Wednesday,
5/15.
(3) Has everybody successfully completed the logaritms
tutorial?
(4) Course,
ch. 8.
(5) Plot F1 and F2 of vowels for General American English and standard Southern
British English.
Week
13: 5/13, 5/15
5/13:
(1) Submit class notes and vowel plotting assignment; previous work will be
returned. Everyone is OK with logarithms?
(2) Course,
ch. 8.
(3) Book sharing: Native
Listening: Lanuage Experience and the Recognition of Spoken Words, by
Anne Cutler.
(4) Read and summarize 10.
大師開講 — 鼻音/m/、/n/
與 /ŋ/ —— No problen? (下)
in No. 78, July/August 2013, p. 12-14.
5/15:
(1) Essays on 「囝仔人有耳無嘴」 "passive learners" will be returned
to you; send pdf file to feathermountain@gmail.com.
(2) Hand
in summary of V&C ch. 8; summarize ch. 9 for next Wednesday, 5/22.
(3) Course, ch. 8
Week
14: 5/20, 5/22
5/20:
(1) Submit class notes; previous work will be returned.
(2) Remember to email essay on "passive learners" to feathermountain@gmail.com.
(3) Course, ch. 8.
(4) Web page: 13.
The Case of the Missing Fundamental
(5) Demonstration of difference frequency on 3-note horn.
(6) Book sharing: The
Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind, by Seth Horowitz.
5/22:
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 9; summarize V&C ch. 10 for next Wednesday,
5/29.
(2) Course, ch. 8.
(3) Spectrogram reading.
(4) Book sharing: The
Sounds of Language: An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology, by Elizabeth
C. Zsiga.
Week
15: 5/27, 5/29
5/27
(1) Submit class notes; previous work will be returned.
(2) Course, ch. 8.
(3) Start working on the exercises for ch. 8.
(4) We'll do the Decibels Tutorial on Wednesday, 6/5; bring a scientific calculator
to class.
5/29:
(1) Submit V&C ch.10; summarize V&C ch. 15 for next week, 6/5.
(2) Course, ch. 8.
Week
16: 6/3,
6/5
6/3:
(1) Submit class notes; previous work will be returned.
(2) Decibels
tutorial. Have your scientific calculator ready!
(3) Go over exercises for ch. 8.
(4) Start ch. 9.
6/5:
(1) Work will be returned.
(2) Submit summary of V&C ch. 15 with 2 questions; summarize ch. 16 and
write 2 questions for next week.
(3) Go over written exercises for ch. 8.
(4) Begin ch. 9 of Course.
(5) Read this Web page carefully and play the videos:
17.
Hearing with your eyes: The McGurk Effect
Skim this page:
16.
White noise, pink noise...orange noise???
(6) Read Facebook post
regarding which gives more information, vowels or consonants?
Week
17: 6/10, 6/12 (Dragon
Boat Festival; no class)
6/10:
(1) There
will be a make-up class on Monday
June 17.
(2) Summary of class notes and evaluation to feathermountain@gmail.com
due today.
(3) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 16.
(4) If you haven't already, please read Facebook post regarding which gives
more information, vowels or consonants?
(5) Finish ch. 9 of Course, begin ch. 10. Note that you do
not have to do the written exercises for ch. 9.
(6) Go over performance exercises for ch. 9.
(7) Begin ch. 10 of Course.
6/12:
(Dragon Boat Festival; no class)
Week
18 (Finals
week): 6/17
(make-up class),
6/19 (guest
lecturer and final exam)
6/17:
(1) Finish ch. 10
(2) Make you've submitted your summary of class notes and evaluation to feathermountain@gmail.com.
(3) Guest lecturer M. Victor Thibout 魏雋 老師 will demonstrate formant singing
on Wednesday 6/17;
final exam will follow Victor's talk.
6/19:
(1) Formant
singing demonstration by guest lecturer M. Victor Thibout 魏雋 老師
(2) Final exam. Have a great summer!!!
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