1. Introduction to Phonetics II  Spring 2014
Instructor: Karen Steffen Chung 史嘉琳老師
karchung@ntu.edu.tw
Mondays 1, 2 (8:10-10:00am) Classroom: 外教 201
Wednesdays 9, A (17:30-19:20 [5:30-7:20pm]) Classroom: 外教 203

CET articles on English pronunciation
Syllabus for Spring 2013

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!
       

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 all of the material in Ladefoged/Disner's Vowels and Consonants.

     Note that Chapter 11 of the Course will not be covered in class, though material in it may appear in the final exam, so you will need to read chapter 11 of the Course yourself, independently. You are however of course welcome to ask questions about it in class.

     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. You must also draw up a pronunciation improvement plan, in Excel format, in which you set goals and target dates for achievement of each goal. This will be updated every week and submitted every Monday.

     Every Wednesday, you will read and submit a brief summary of one chapter of Vowels and Consonants and write and submit two questions on the chapter a week, in this sequence:

February 19-26: Chapter 1 February 26-March 5: Chapter 2 March 5-12: Chapter 3 March 12-19: Chapter 11 March 19-26: Chapter 12 March 26-April 2: Chapter 13  (Wednesday 4/2 is a holiday) April 2-9: Chapter 14 April 9-16: Chapter 4

April 16-23: Chapter 5 April 23-30: Chapter 6 April 30-May 7: Chapter 7 May 7-14: Chapter 8 May 14-21: Chapter 9 May 21-28: Chapter 10 May 28-June 4: Chapter 15 (Monday 6/2 is a holiday) June 4-9: Chapter 16 (to be handed in on Monday 6/9)

     There will be a number of class dictations, and 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. Various Web assignments will be given, and you will get more practice in using Praat and other speech tools.

     Make sure you join and check in often with NTU Phonetics on Facebook, where we can continue and supplement class discussions and ask and answer questions online.

     Final exam date: Wednesday, June 18, 2013 5:30-7:20pm in 外教 203.

Grade calculation:

     Students will be graded on written work, dictations (to a lesser extent), quizzes, chapter tests, and a final, as well as attendance, class participation, attitude, and progress made.

Syllabus: NOTE: This syllabus is basically a modified copy of the OCW Spring 2013 Phonetics II syllabus,
     so it is for reference only. It is certain to be changed a lot over the course of the semester.
     It will be updated weekly, so in general, it should be accurate up to and including the current week;
     for any time after that, check back after it's been updated for this semester.
     PLEASE REPORT ANY ERRORS OR DEAD LINKS you find to karchung@ntu.edu.tw!

Week 1: 2/17, 2/19
2/17:
(1) Enrollment and other class business;
     make sure you have your copy of Vowels and Consonants,
     by 2/19 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.

(2) Your final exam from last semester will be returned; correct it carefully
      and hand it in on Monday Feb. 24.

(3) Learn to read "Cædmon's Hymn" Old English. Version 2. Text.

(4) Start reading chapter 6 of Ladefoged/Johnson's A Course in Phonetics.

(5) Just like last semester, 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!).

(6) Read and summarize CET 15 (issue #83) and hand in with your class notes.

(7) Everyone will share with the class three observations about language
     collected over the winter break (or starting from today!) on Wednesday, 2/19.

(8) Book sharing: The Earliest English: An Introduction to Old English Language, by Chris McCully & Sharon Hilles.

2/19:
(1) Introduction to Vowels and Consonants; read and summarize chapter 1,
     and write two questions on the material in the chapter, to be submitted 2/26.

(2) Everyone will share with the class three observations about language
     collected over the winter break.

(3) 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.
     for "implosive": 內爆音
     for "click: 咂音、搭嘴音、吸氣音

Week 2: 2/24, 2/26
2/24:
(1) Hand in your class notes from last week, plus your list of pronunciation corrections
      from last semester, your weekly plan for correcting them this semester,
      your summary of CET 15 (issue #83), and your corrected final exam from last semester..

(2) Course, ch. 6.

2/26:
(1) Ask questions on V&C ch. 1, hand in your summary and 2 questions.
     Next week's V&C chapter: Ch. 2, for 3/5.

(2) Course, ch. 6.


Week 3: 3/3, 3/5
3/3:
(1) Hand in class notes and your weekly plan for pronunciation improvement.

(2) Dictation: Ejectives and VOT.

(3) Course, ch. 6. Clicks; phonation types.

3/5:
(1) Ask questions on V&C ch. 2, hand in your summary and 2 questions.
     Next week's V&C chapter: Ch. 3, for 3/12.

(2) Dictation.

(3) Course, ch. 6: phonation types.


Week 4: 3/10, 3/12
3/10:
(1) Hand in class notes, weekly plan for pronunciation improvement.

(2) Course, ch. 6: phonation types.

3/12:
(1) Ask questions on V&C ch. 3, hand in your summary and 2 questions.
     Next week's V&C chapter: Ch. 11, for 3/19.

(2) Dictation.

(3) Course, ch. 6: phonation types.


Week 5: 3/17, 3/19
3/17:
(1) Hand in class notes, update on your weekly pronunciation improvement plan in your notes for next Monday.

(2) Finish Course, ch. 6: phonation types.

(3) Mark written exercises for ch. 6, go over performance exercises.

(4) Test on chapter 6 on Wednesday 3/19.

3/19:
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 11, summary of ch. 12 with 2 questions for next Wednesday, 3/26.

(2) Begin Course, ch. 7.

(3) Test on chapter 6 and dictation on Monday 3/24.


Week 6: 3/24, 3/26
3/24:
(1) Hand in notes and pronunciation plan update.

(2) Test on chapter 6 and dictation.

(2) Course, ch. 7.

3/26:
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch 12; summarize ch 13,
     to be handed in on Monday 3/31 (Wednesday 4/2 is a holiday).

(2) Course, ch. 7.


Week 7: 3/31, 4/2 (Holiday; no class)

3/31:
(1) Hand in notes, update on pronunciation plan, and summary of V&C ch 13;
     summarize and write 2 questions on V&C ch. 14, for Wednesday 4/9.

(2) Course, ch. 7.

4/2:
(Holiday; no class)


Week 8: 4/7, 4/9
4/7:
(1) Hand in notes and pronunciation plan update.

(2) Course, ch. 7.

4/9:
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch 14 with 2 questions;
     summarize and write 2 questions on V&C ch. 4 for Wednesday, 4/16.

(2) Dictation.

(3) Course ch 7.

(4) Do the exercises for ch. 7 and submit on Monday 4/14.
     We will finish ch. 7 on 4/14 and then go over the exercises in class.


Week 9: 4/14, 4/16
4/14:
(1) Submit class notes and pronunciation plan update.

(2) Finish Course ch. 7.

(3) Mark exercises for ch. 7.

4/16:
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 4; summarize ch. 5 for next Wednesday, 4/23.

(2) Chapter test on Course, ch. 7; will probably include dictation.

(3) Begin ch. 8 of Course.

(4) Web page: 8. Fundamental frequency and harmonics


Week 10: 4/21, 4/23
4/21:
(1) Submit class notes and pronunciation plan update.

(2) Test on Course, ch. 7, with dictation

(3) Guitar demonstration of modes of vibration of a string, using guitar, retractable ruler, electronic tuner, calculator.

(4) Finish web page: 8. Fundamental frequency and harmonics;
      web page: 10. Vowels and Formants II (with duck call demonstration)

(5) Course, ch. 8.

4/23:
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 5; summarize ch. 6 for next Wednesday, 4/30.

(2) Dication.

(3) Course, ch. 8.

(4) Finish web page: 10. Vowels and Formants II (with duck call demonstration)

(5) Do the logarithms tutorial; introduction and link on web page:
     11. Getting ready to learn about decibels: a tutorial on logarithms

(6) 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.


Week 11: 4/28, 4/30
4/28:
(1) Submit class notes and pronunciation plan update.

(2) Has everybody successfully completed the logaritms tutorial?

(3) Dictation.

(4) Course, ch. 8.

4/30:
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 6; summarize ch. 7 for next Wednesday, 5/7.

(2) Course, ch. 8.

(3) Plot F1 and F2 of vowels for General American English and standard Southern British English. Due 5/5.


Week 12: 5/5, 5/7
5/5:
(1) Submit class notes, pronunciation plan update and F1 and F2 vowel plots.

(2) Course, ch. 8.

(3) Bring scientific calculator to class on Wednesday 5/7 for Decibels tutorial.

5/7:
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 7; summarize ch. 8 for next Wednesday, 5/14.

(2) 12. Decibels tutorial. Have scientific calculator ready.

(3) Course, ch. 8.


Week 13: 5/12, 5/14
5/12:
(1) Submit class notes, pronunciation plan update; resubmit vowel plotting assignment if necessary.

(2) Web page: 13. The Case of the Missing Fundamental

(3) Demonstration of beats on 2-tone bird whistle, of difference frequency on 3-note horn.

(4) Course, ch. 8.

5/14:
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 8; summarize ch. 9 for next Wednesday, 5/21.

(2) Dictation.

(3) Course, ch. 8


Week 14: 5/19, 5/21
5/19:
(1) Submit class notes and pronunciation plan update.

(2) Web page: 19. Vowels and Formants III: Formants for fun and profit (with samples of exotic music)

(3) Course, ch. 8.

(4) Read this page: 16. White noise, pink noise...orange noise???

5/21:
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 9 with 2 questions; summarize V&C ch. 10 and write 2 questions for Wednesday, 5/28.

(2) Course, ch. 8.

(3) Spectrogram reading.


Week 15: 5/26, 5/28
5/26:
(1) Submit class notes and pronunciation plan update.

(2) Course, ch. 8.

(3) Exercises for ch. 8 due 5/28.

5/28:
(1) Submit summary on V&C ch.10 with 2 questions; summarize V&C ch. 15 and write 2 questions for next week, 6/4.

(2) Finish Course, ch. 8.

(3) Go over exercises for ch. 8.

(4) Course, ch. 9.


Week 16: 6/2 (Holiday; no class), 6/4
6/2:
(Holiday; no class)

6/4:
(1) Submit class notes and pronunciation plan update,
     summary of V&C ch. 15;
     for next Wednesday 6/11, summarize V&C ch. 15 and 16,
     also read and hand in summaries of:
     CET 16 Do not 和 don’t意思一樣嗎？英語的縮讀字（上） and
     CET 17 Do not 和 don’t意思一樣嗎？英語的縮讀字（下）.

(2) Course, ch. 9.

(3) Go over performance exercises for ch. 9.

(4) Final evalution and Summary of Class Notes (submit as two separate pdf files)
      for Phonetics II are due June 11:

      I. End-of-semester evaluation:
      Part 1: evaluate the class, teacher, homework assignments,
what was most and least useful, things that could be improved, and how
— everything about the class this semester.
      Part 2: Evaluate yourself: Attendance and punctuality, homework submission,
how prepared for class you were, how much you learned from the class,
how much effort you put into this class.
      Part 3: How do you plan to continue improving your English and learning more about linguistics?

      II. Organized summary of your class notes:
      Go through all your old notes, and organize them into a summary of main points,
including notes on the CET articles and Vowels & Consonants. You do not have to include every single detail
from your notes; try rather to combine notes that are about the same thing and to generalize.

      Format and submission instructions: Convert your files to pdf format
before emailing both files to Ms. Chung at: feathermountain@gmail.com no later than June 11, 2014.

Week 17: 6/9, 6/11
6/9:
(1) Hand in summaries of V&C ch. 16, plus
     CET 16 Do not 和 don’t意思一樣嗎？英語的縮讀字（上） and
     CET 17 Do not 和 don’t意思一樣嗎？英語的縮讀字（下）.

(2) Web page: 17. Hearing with your eyes: The McGurk Effect

(3) Finish Course ch. 9; ch 10.

6/11:
(1) Summary of class notes and evaluation to feathermountain@gmail.com due today.

(2) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 15 and 16.

(3) Finish Course ch. 10.


Week 18 (Finals week): 6/16 (no class), 6/18 (Final exam(
6/16:
(1) NO CLASS currently scheduled; may change according to need. Any changes will be announced in class.

(2) Make you've submitted your summary of class notes and evaluation to feathermountain@gmail.com.


6/18:
(1) Final exam: 5:30-7:20pm in 外教 206.

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