1. Introduction to Phonetics II Spring
2018
Instructor: Karen Steffen Chung 史嘉琳 老師
karchung@ntu.edu.tw
Mondays 1, 2
(8:10-10:00am) Classroom: 外教 203
Wednesdays 9, A (17:30-19:15
[5:30-7:15pm]) Classroom: 外教 203
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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 & Sandra Ferrari Disner. 2012. Vowels and Consonants: An Introduction to the Sounds of Languages. 3rd edition. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell. 211pp + xvii. Paper. Companion website here. Buy at Crane's 文鶴. Make sure you get the 3rd edition! Note: This book seems to be currently unavailable. Get more information in class.
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" (figure out the correct compound noun
stress before reading this aloud!), 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 paper summary of their notes
in class every Monday, and to also upload your notes and
other written work to Google Drive. Make sure Ms. Chung has
a gmail address for you so you can be added to the Phonetics
II S17 folder on Google Drive.
There will be 30 class
meetings this semester:
February 2018: 26, (Wed Feb 28 is a holiday; no class);
March: 5, 7, 12, 14, 19, 21, 26, 28;
April: (Mon April 2 and Wed April 4 are holidays; no class); 9, 11, 16, 18,
23, 25, 30;
May: 2, 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 23, 28, 30;
June: 4, 6. 11, 13, (Mon June 18 is a holiday; no class); 20.
The final exam is currently scheduled for: Wednesday, June
27, 2018 in 外教 203; subject to
change.
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
26-March 7: Chapter
1 (Wednesday 2/28 is a
holiday) March 7-14: Chapter 2 March 14-21: Chapter 3 March 21-28: Chapter 11 March 28-April 4: Chapter 12 (Monday 4/2 and Wednesday 4/4 are holidays) April 4-11: Chapter 13 (Wednesday 4/4 is a holiday) April 11-18: Chapter 14 April 18-25: Chapter 4 |
April 25-May 2: Chapter 5 May 2-9: Chapter 6 May 9-16: Chapter 7 May 16-23: Chapter 8 May 23-30: Chapter 9 May 30-June 6: Chapter 10 June 6-13: Chapter 15 June 13-20: Chapter 16 |
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.
All of the classes from
Phonetics II, Spring 2013, are available online for
reference. This semester will not be exactly the same, but
if you end up missing a class, or if you'd like to hear the
material again for review or to understand it better, you're
encouraged to watch the online lectures.
Final exam date:
Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 5:30-7:15pm 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 Spring 2017
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!
Website for A Course in Phonetics
Week 1: 2/26, 2/28 (holiday: no class)
Monday 2/26:
(1) Enrollment and other
class business;
fill in your gmail and other
required information:
You will receive an invitation
to join the class gmail folder
if you weren't in the class last
semester.
Make sure you have a copy of the
third edition of
Vowels and Consonants
asap!
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.
Read
and summarize chapter 1 and write two questions
on the
material in the chapter, to be
submitted 3/7.
(2) Your
final exam from last semester will be returned
and we'll go over it in class.
Correct it carefully
and hand it in on Wednesday March 7.
(3) Just
like last semester, you will hand in the paper version
of your class notes every
Monday, and you are also to
upload them to Google
Drive before Monday of each week.
Make sure that you record all
pronunciation corrections, and
work actively on automating
them and thus fixing them permanently
so we won't have to keep
repeating the same corrections in class!
One of the biggest
complaints in previous classes is that we spent
too much class time
correcting the same mistakes over and over
again. This can be avoided
if you practice and come prepared.
(4) For new
students: Read and summarize
大師開講 — 提升聽力祕訣：每天請聽「回音」十分鐘（上、下）
For everybody: 英語島: 台灣教室裡找不到的「嘲諷課」(上)
(5) Make three
observations about language over the
coming week
and share what you find with the
class on Wednesday, 3/7.
(6) Book sharing: 漢語語句韻律的語法功能. 葉軍 著. 華東師範大學出版社. 2001.
(7) Start 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 "ingressive": 內吸音;
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 zā 音、搭嘴音、吸氣音
(8) Breaktime music:
Love by John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
lyrics
Wednesday 2/28: (holiday; no class)
Website for A Course in Phonetics
Week 2: 3/6, 3/7
3/5:
(1) Finalize class list.
(2) Discuss and hand in:
大師開講 — 提升聽力祕訣：每天請聽「回音」十分鐘（上、下）
Also: 英語島: 台灣教室裡找不到的「嘲諷課」(上)
This link was missing from last week's
syllabus;
please read it for next week if you
missed this.
For next week: New students:
CET 3 (#71) : 提升聽力祕訣： /i/ 和 /ɪ/
的辨別;
Everybody: 英語島:
台灣教室裡找不到的「嘲諷課」（下）
http://www.eisland.com.tw/Main.php?stat=a_mtBV4jK&mid=36
(3) We'll go over last semester's final exam on Wednesday
March 7.
(4) Discuss three observations about language collected over
the past week.
(5) Course, ch. 6.
(6) Breaktime music:
Englishman in New York
by Sting lyrics
3/7:
(1) Ask questions on V&C ch. 1, hand in your summary and 2
questions.
Jenny's question regarding
continuants.
Next week's V&C chapter: Ch.
2, for 3/14.
(2)
Go over last semester's final exam.
(3) We'll finish sharing language observations on Monday,
3/12.
(4) Course, ch. 6. Ejectives.
(5) Optional:
Join the Goodreads group: NTU Freshman English
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/213835-ntu-freshman-english
If you like, you can join the
2018 Goodreads Reading Challenge:
https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/7501-2018-reading-challenge
You can add books you read in
Chinese and other languages as well as English!
(6) 如何依據國音來辨認
入聲字 (How to recognize entering tone
characters
based on their Mandarin
pronunciation) Word download
(7) For new students: Pinyin Tutorial: 漢語拼音八講
local
copy
(8) Breaktime music:
Englishman in New York
by Sting lyrics
Website for A Course in Phonetics
Week 3: 3/12, 3/14
3/12:
(1) Submit paper class notes and notes on
CET 3 (#71) : 提升聽力祕訣： /i/ 和 /ɪ/
的辨別 (new students);
Everybody: 英語島:
台灣教室裡找不到的「嘲諷課」（下）
http://www.eisland.com.tw/Main.php?stat=a_mtBV4jK&mid=36
and upload to Google Drive. For next week:
老師，請認錯吧！
Next week for new students: CET 4 (#72:)「重音」真的很重要!
(2) Continue sharing language observations.
(3) Course,
ch. 6. Ejectives.
(4) Breaktime music:
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken by Pink lyrics
3/14:
(1)
Ask questions on V&C ch. 2, hand in your summary and 2
questions.
Next week's V&C chapter: Ch. 3,
for 3/21.
(2) Finish
sharing language observations.
(3) Book sharing: French Lessons: A Memoir,
by Alice Kaplan.
(4) Course, ch. 6.
(5) Breaktime music:
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken by Pink lyrics
Website for A Course in Phonetics
Week 4: 3/19, 3/21
3/19:
(1) Submit and upload class notes and notes on 老師，請認錯吧！;
for new students: include
notes on:
CET 4 (#72:)「重音」真的很重要!
For next week, read and
take notes on the English Island article:
同學，給我一點Feedback
and English Island 26
February 2018 點頭的力量.
New students: also read
and take notes on:
CET 5 (#73:) 英語教學死角：複合名詞重音
(2) Course, ch. 6: airstream mechanisms: ejectives.
(3) Breaktime music:
Ed Sheeran: Supermarket Flowers
video with lyrics
lyrics
3/21:
(1) Ask questions on V&C ch. 3, hand in your summary and 2
questions.
Next week's V&C chapter: Ch. 11, for 3/28.
(2) Dictation: Ejectives.
(3) Course, ch. 6: implosives. Practice for next
class!
(4) Breaktime music:
Ed Sheeran: Supermarket Flowers
video with lyrics
lyrics
Website for A Course in Phonetics
Week 5: 3/26, 3/28
3/26:
(1) Submit and upload class notes and notes on English Island
4 April 2016 同學，給我一點Feedback
and English Island 26
February 2018 點頭的力量.
New students: also: CET 5 (#73:) 英語教學死角：複合名詞重音
For next week, read and
take notes on the English Island articles:
a. English Island 5 May
2016 Wrongology
不要懷疑，真的有犯錯學; and
b. English Island 27
(March 2018): 放輕鬆， 「發呆」讓你發音更好.
For new students: include
notes on:
CET 6 (#74) 抑揚頓挫：英語的語調和斷句 in
No. 74, November/December 2012
(2) For new students: Hanyu Pinyin Tutorial
http://www.svcs-us.org/docs/academics/2012-2013/HanYuPinYin.pdf
Local copy
(3) Goodreads group: NTU Freshman English
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/213835-ntu-freshman-english
(4) Course, ch. 6: Implosives and clicks.
(5) Breaktime music:
Colbie Caillat: Try
video with lyrics
lyrics
3/28:
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch 11, summary of ch 12 and ch. 13 for 4/11.
Upload ch. 12 by Wednesday 4/4 -
which is a holiday, but it's still due!
(2) Dictation: Implosives.
(3) Ch. 6: Clicks and phonation types.
(4) Click-related links:
a. The click consonants and the languages
in which they are found
b. The clicks of Xhosa
c. Tongue twister in Xhosa
d. Trevor Noah speaking Xhosa
e. South African singer Miriam
Makeba singing the Xhosa "Click Song (Qongqothwane)"
f. Miriam Makeba singing
the Zulu original of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
g. Name clicks 1 Nama clicks 2 Damara-Nama clicks 3
h. Spoken sample of San, a Khoisan language of the Kalahari
Desert
(5) Breaktime music: Colbie Caillat: Try
video with lyrics
lyrics
Website for A Course in Phonetics
Week 6: 4/2, 4/4 are holidays; there will be no class.
4/2:
(Holiday; no class)
4/4:
(Holiday; no class)
Week 7: 4/9, 4/11
4/9:
(1) Hand in and upload class notes and notes on:
a. English Island 5 May 2016 Wrongology
不要懷疑，真的有犯錯學; and
b. English Island 27
(March 2018): 放輕鬆， 「發呆」讓你發音更好.
For new students: include
notes on:
CET 6 (#74) 抑揚頓挫：英語的語調和斷句 in
No. 74, November/December 2012
for next week, read and
take notes on
English Island 6 (June 2016): 中文變好，英文也跟著好了,
English Island 7 (July 2016): 看不見的文法, and (because it came
up in class):
English Island 18 (June
2017): 會唱這兩首歌，就學會假設語氣.
For new students: include
notes on:
CET 7 (#75) Stop at stops! ——
遇到塞音請停！
in No. 75,
January/February 2013, p. 12-14.
(2) Course, ch. 6; Phonation types.
(3) New students + review for old students:
a. 14. Phonemes and allophones;
and:
15:
More on Phonemes and Allphones,
making sure
you understand it thoroughly.
b. Do the three tutorials linked
to on this page, also under Phonetics I:
17. Three
Tutorials on Voicing and Plosives.
Go through
the tutorials carefully and thoroughly!
If any
of the sound files are missing or if there are other problems,
please
take the initiative and email Prof. Mark Huckvale
(m.huckvale@ucl.ac.uk) right away!
(4) Breaktime music:
Leonard Cohen: Waiting for the Miracle
video with lyrics
lyrics
4/11:
(1) Hand in summaries of V&C ch 12 and ch 13; summarize ch
14 for 4/18.
(2) Dictation: Clicks.
Review IPA click symbols (terms
according to John Wells):
1. bilabial click
ʘ
2. dental click
ǀ
3. alveolar
click ǂ
4. retroflex click
ǃ
5. alveolar lateral
click ǁ
Today's dictation will
include: 1, 2, 3, and 5;
and the vowels: /ɑ/
/i/ /o/ and /u/.
All of the above clicks
may be preceded by a:
1. /k/ voiceless back
articulation,
2. /g/ voiced back
articulation, or
3. /ŋ/ nasal back
articulation;
but today's dictation will
include only option 1.
Examples: i.
/kǂɑ/ ii. /kǀi/
(3) Try to finish Course, ch. 6.
(4) Do the written exercises for chapter 6 for Monday, April
16;
also prepare for a test on
chapter 6 soon afterwards.
(5) New students + review for old students:
a. 14. Phonemes and allophones;
and:
15:
More on Phonemes and Allphones,
making sure
you understand it thoroughly.
b. Do the three tutorials linked
to on this page, also under Phonetics I:
17. Three
Tutorials on Voicing and Plosives.
Go through
the tutorials carefully and thoroughly!
If any
of the sound files are missing or if there are other problems,
please
take the initiative and email Prof. Mark Huckvale
(m.huckvale@ucl.ac.uk) right away!
(6) Book sharing: The Chinese Typewriter: A History
by Thomas S. Mullaney
Early English typewriter
(1930s) Old typewriters
Arabic electric typewriter Thai typewriter
Hebrew typewriter Chinese typewriter
(7) Breaktime music:
Leonard Cohen: Waiting for the Miracle
video with lyrics
lyrics
Website for A Course in Phonetics
Week 8: 4/16, 4/18
4/16:
(1) Hand in and upload class notes and notes on:
(new students; old
students review:)
CET 7 (#75) Stop at stops! ——
遇到塞音請停！
in No. 75,
January/February 2013, p. 12-14.
also the following two
articles assigned last semster:
English Island 6 (June 2016): 中文變好，英文也跟著好了,
English Island 7 (July 2016): 看不見的文法, and (because it came
up in class):
English Island 18 (June
2017): 會唱這兩首歌，就學會假設語氣.
For Monday 4/23: New
students: CET 8 (#76) "-s" 和 "-ed" 詞尾 怎麼唸？
in No. 76, March/April 2013, p.
12-14.
Everybody: English Island
9 (September 2016): 哪國語言外來語最多？
(2) Finish Course, ch. 6.
(3) Go over written and oral exercises for ch. 6.
(4) Test on chapter 6 on Monday, April 23.
(5) Start Course, ch. 7: Consonantal Gestures.
(6) Breaktime music: Christina Perri: Human
Live at British Grove Studios
Video with lyrics
lyrics
4/18:
(1) Hand in summaries of V&C ch 14; summarize ch 4 for
4/23.
(2) Finish exercises for ch. 6.
(3) Course, ch. 7: Consonantal Gestures.
(4) Book sharing: 王力：古代漢語常識. 北京：北京出版社. 2016.
(5) Breaktime music: Christina Perri: Human
Live at British Grove Studios
Video with lyrics
lyrics
Week 9: 4/23, 4/25
4/23:
(1) Hand in and upload class notes; also notes on (new
students)
CET 8 (#76) "-s" 和 "-ed" 詞尾 怎麼唸？,
and (everybody)
English Island 9 (September
2016): 哪國語言外來語最多？
For Monday 4/30: CET 9 & 10 (#77 & #78)
鼻音/m/、/n/ 與 /?/ —— No problen?（上、下）
in No. 77, May/June 2013, p. 12-14
and No. 78, July/August 2013, p. 12-14.
English Island 10 (Octboer 2016)
你有沒有不小心 講出「限制級英文」?;
old students may read a new English Island article of your choice
if you like.
(2) Test on chapter 6; it will include a Pinyin quiz.
The dictation will be postponed till
Wednesday 4/25.
(3) Course, ch 7.
(4) Book sharing: 王力：古代漢語常識. 北京：北京出版社. 2016.
(5) Breaktime music: Goo Goo Dolls:
Iris Video with lyrics
Lyrics
New terms: iambic, trochaic,
dactylic, anapectic; anacrusis
About Poetry: English Prosody plus Selected
Literary Terms
4/25:
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch 4 with 2 questions;
summarize and write 2 questions on
V&C ch. 5 for Wednesday, 5/2.
(2) Dictation: Hindi: Initial breathy voiced stops.
(3) Correct test on ch 6; hand it in on Monday, April 30.
(4) Course ch 7.
(5) Breaktime music: Goo Goo Dolls:
Iris Video with lyrics
Lyrics
New terms: iambic,
trochaic, dactylic, anapestic; anacrusis.
Western pop music usually has a 4/4
time signature; this song has 6/8 rhythm,
with the beats grouped in
threes. For reference:
About Poetry: English Prosody plus
Selected Literary Terms
Website for A Course in Phonetics
Week 10: 4/30, 5/2
4/30:
(1) Submit and upload class notes, along
with notes on
CET 9 & 10 (#77 & #78)
鼻音/m/、/n/ 與 /?/ —— No problen?（上、下）,
English Island 10 (Octboer
2016) 你有沒有不小心 講出「限制級英文」? and
optional other English Island article of your choice.
For next
week: CET 11 (#79) 台式英語罪魁禍首：/æ/、/ɛ/ 和 /eɪ/
in No. 79,
September/October 2013, p. 12-14, and
English Island 8 (August
2016) 誰講話最快？
Article mentioned in
class in response to question regarding bilingual
kindergartens and
phonics vs. KK:
English Island 22
(October 2017): 為什麼簡單的單字，發音卻不簡單？
Also hand in your
corrected test on ch 6.
(2) Course, ch 7.
(3) Breaktime music: Coldplay
Fix You Video with lyrics Lyrics
5/02:
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 5; summarize ch. 6 for
next Wednesday, 5/9.
(2) Course, ch 7.
(3) Do
the logarithms tutorial; introduction and
link on web page:
11.
Getting ready to learn about decibels: a tutorial on
logarithms
(4) Print out the exercises for ch 7 and complete them.
Due Monday May 7.
(5) Book sharing: 漢字簡史：從文字誕生到印刷歷變
符馬活 著
(6)
Breaktime music: Coldplay Fix You
Video with lyrics
Lyrics
Website for A Course in
Phonetics
Week 11: 5/07, 5/09
5/07:
(1) Submit and upload class
notes, along with notes on
CET 11 (#79)
台式英語罪魁禍首：/æ/、/ɛ/ 和 /eɪ/
in No.
79, September/October 2013, p. 12-14,
and
English
Island 8 (August 2016) 誰講話最快？
For
next week: CET 12 (#80) 英語發音百樂篇（一）:
Pronunciation Potluck (1)
in No. 80,
November/December 2013, p. 12-14, and
English Island 12
(December 2016) 到底是Yes還是No?
Also, article
mentioned in class last week in response to
question regarding bilingual
kindergartens
and phonics vs. KK, if you haven't already read
it:
English Island
22 (October 2017): 為什麼簡單的單字，發音卻不簡單？
(2) Finish Course, ch 7.
(3) Have written exercises for ch. 7 ready; we'll
probably go over them on Wednesday 5/9.
(4) Book sharing: Be Like the Fox
by Erica Benner.
(5)
Breaktime music: Phil Collins
Another Day in Paradise
video with lyrics
lyrics
5/09:
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 6; summarize
ch. 7 for next Wednesday, 5/16.
(2) Finish Course, ch 7 if not finished
on 5/7.
(3) Mark exercises
for ch 7.
(4) Make sure you've
done the logarithms tutorial;
introduction and link on web page:
11.
Getting ready to learn about decibels: a
tutorial on logarithms
(5) Breaktime music: Phil Collins
Another Day in Paradise
video with lyrics
lyrics
Website for A Course in Phonetics
Week 12: 5/14; 5/16
5/14:
(1) Submit and upload class notes, along with notes on
CET 12 (#80) 英語發音百樂篇（一）:
Pronunciation Potluck (1)
in No. 80, November/December 2013, p. 12-14, and
English Island 12 (December 2016) 到底是Yes還是No?
Also, article mentioned in class last week in response to
question regarding bilingual
kindergartens and phonics vs. KK, if you hadn't read and
submitted notes on it apreviously:
English Island 22 (October 2017): 為什麼簡單的單字，發音卻不簡單？
For next week: CET 13 (#81) 英語發音百樂篇（二）:
Pronunciation Potluck (2)
in No. 81, January/February 2014, p. 12-14, and
CET 14 (#82) 英語發音百樂篇（三）:
Pronunciation Potluck (3)
in No. 82, March/April 2014, p. 12-14; plus
English Island 13 (January 2017): 你是中文腦還是英文腦？
(2) Finish marking exercises for ch 7.
Test on ch 7 with Pinyin quiz on Wednesday 5/16.
(3) Course, ch 8.
(4) Breaktime music: Rise Against
Hero of War
video with lyrics
lyrics
5/16:
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 7; summarize ch. 8 for next
Wednesday, 5/23.
(2) Test on ch 7 with Pinyin quiz.
(3) Course, ch 8.
(4) Webpage: Phonetics II, 8.
Fundamental frequency and harmonics
(5) Transcribing Mandarin in IPA:
please print out and bring to class on Wednesday 5/23.
(6) Ruben Tsui's handout on palatal
nasals in Hakka, with comparisons to
Cantonese.
Hakka audio dictionary
Cantonese audio dictionary
(7) Breaktime music: Rise Against
Hero of War
video with lyrics
lyrics
Week 13: 5/21; 5/23
5/21:
(1) Submit and upload class notes, along with notes on
CET 13 (#81) 英語發音百樂篇（二）:
Pronunciation Potluck (2)
in No. 81, January/February 2014, p. 12-14, and
CET 14 (#82) 英語發音百樂篇（三）:
Pronunciation Potluck (3)
in No. 82, March/April 2014, p. 12-14; plus
English Island 13 (January 2017): 你是中文腦還是英文腦？
For next week: CET 15 (#83) 英語發音百樂篇（四）:
Pronunciation Potluck (4)
in No. 83, May/June 2014, p. 12-14; plus
English Island 14 (February 2017): 希望、祝福、許願 英文怎麼說？
and English Island 15 (March 2017) "Goody Two Shoes" 太乖的人生有點無聊.
(2) You'll receive your marked test on ch 7 back; correct all
the places
where you had points taken off and submit on Wednesday, May
23.
(3) Sharing from CET
Pronunciation Workshop 2018.
(4) Bottle resonance demonstration.
(5) Course, ch 8.
(6) Breaktime music: Aerosmith Dream On
video with lyrics
lyrics
5/23:
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 8; summarize ch. 9 for next
Wednesday, 5/30.
(2) Guitar overtones demonstration.
(3) Course, ch 8.
(4) Go over Transcribing Mandarin in IPA
handout.
(5) Breaktime music: Aerosmith Dream On
video with lyrics
lyrics
Website for A Course in Phonetics
Week 14: 5/28; 5/30
5/28:
(1) Submit and upload class notes, along with notes on
CET 15 (#83) 英語發音百樂篇（四）: Pronunciation
Potluck (4)
in No. 83, May/June 2014, p.
12-14; plus
English Island 14 (February
2017): 希望、祝福、許願 英文怎麼說？
and English Island 15 (March
2017) "Goody Two Shoes" 太乖的人生有點無聊.
For
next week:
CET 16 (#84) and CET
17 (#85) Do not 和 don’t意思一樣嗎？英語的縮讀字（上、下）
in No. 84, July/August 2014, p.
12-14 and
No. 85, September/October 2014, p.
16-18; also
English Island 16 (April 2017): Echo Method: 用「回音記憶」打造nativelike的語感.
(2) Repeat from first semester:
Demonstration of overtones of
voiced sounds as compared to whistling,
which has only a fundamental
frequency.
Reliable Software: Frequency
Analyzer:
http://www.relisoft.com/freeware/freq.html
(3) Have fun with the Pink Trombone: https://dood.al/pinktrombone/
(4) Web page: 10. Vowels and Formants II (with duck call
demonstration)
(5) Course, ch
8.
(6) Breaktime music: Brendan Benson Lesson Learned
(mp3) lyrics
5/30
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 9;
summarize ch. 10 for next Wednesday, 6/6.
(2) Transcribing Mandarin into IPA. Transcribe the following
paragraph from the news into Hanyu Pinyin and IPA:
氣溫持續飆升，不僅熱得民眾哇哇大叫，動物園裡的動物也被曬得頭昏腦漲懶洋洋，
甚至還有身體不舒服的狀況，毒辣的太陽高掛天空，動物們都往樹蔭下躲，讓前來的
遊客直呼「到哪兒去了！」
For 6/4 you need only transcribe this part into PINYIN and
IPA:
氣溫持續飆升，不僅熱得民眾哇哇大叫
Remember to include a "tone letter" after each
syllable.
Here is a hand-written
transcription of a different passage from previous
years for reference.
(Watch out for some minor
errors.)
(3) Course, ch 8.
(4) Sympathetic vibration demonstration with an Appalachian dulcimer.
(5) Have fun synthesizing your own voice with Lyrebird.
Thanks to Tony Hsueh 薛靖寰 for sharing
this great find with us!
(Do keep privacy concerns in mind.)
https://lyrebird.ai/
Here's an introduction to Lyrebird in
Chinese - thanks to Robert Lin:
用AI合成出你的虛擬聲音! LYREBIRD網站實測! | 啾啾鞋
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o33A6ZIXLM&t=91s
(6) Breaktime music: Brendan Benson Lesson Learned
(mp3) lyrics
Website for A Course in Phonetics
Week 15: 6/04; 6/06
(1) Submit and
upload class notes, along with notes on
CET 16 (#84) and CET
17 (#85) Do not 和 don’t意思一樣嗎？英語的縮讀字（上、下）
in No. 84, July/August 2014, p. 12-14
and
No. 85, September/October 2014, p.
16-18; also
English Island 16 (April 2017): Echo Method: 用「回音記憶」打造nativelike的語感.
For next week:
CET 18 (#86) 次重音：次要的重音還是很重要！ in
No. 86, November/December 2014, p. 12-14; also
English Island 19 (July 2017): 小心你的台式英文腔, and:
English Island 20 (August 2017):
語言交換必看小撇步.
(2)
Check Pinyin and IPA transcriptions of:
氣溫持續飆升，不僅熱得民眾哇哇大叫.
Finish transcribing the rest of the above
paragraph into Pinyin and IPA.
Write out your assigned
transcription on the whiteboard before class on
6/06
and we'll go over it in
class.
(3) Print
out this blank formant chart.
Plot the center frequencies of
the eight US English vowels in figure 8.4 on page 194,
and the eight Standard British
English vowels in figure 8.5 on page 195 of the Course.
Using different colors, connect
the dots with lines, as in figure 8.18 on page 213.
Hand in on Wednesday 6/06.
(4) Course, ch 8.
(5) Book sharing.
(6) Breaktime music: Bruce Springsteen:
Adam Raised a Cain
video with lyrics
lyrics
Springsteen had a very difficult
and complicated relationship with his father.
Quote from Bruce Springsteen: "I believe
behind every artist [he] has someone that told him
that he wasn't worth dirt, and
someone that told him they were the second coming of baby
Jesus,
and they believed them both," he
told Anthony Mason. "That is the fuel that starts the fire."
6/06
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 10;
summarize ch. 15 for next Wednesday, 6/13.
(2) Watch and include notes on these videos (especially on
the parts that surprised or impressed you most)
on 1. how Nuance
created "Siri":
Inside Nuance: the art and science of
how Siri speaks
You can turn on the subtitles
("cc") for help if needed or desired, though they're not
always accurate.
How did Nuance incorporate
the "continuation rise" into Siri's voice?
And 2. this video on
how Siri understands us:
This Is The Algorithm That Lets Siri
Understand Your Questions | Mach | NBC News
(3) Course, ch 8. Spectrogram reading.
(4) Segment and add IPA symbols to the spectrogram in
figure 8.13 for Monday 6/11.
(5) Breaktime music: Bruce Springsteen: Adam Raised a Cain
video with lyrics
lyrics
Website for A Course in Phonetics
Week
16: 6/11 and 6/13
6/11
(1) Submit and upload
class notes, along with notes on
CET 18 (#86) 次重音：次要的重音還是很重要！
in No. 86, November/December 2014, p. 12-14; also
English Island 19 (July 2017): 小心你的台式英文腔, and:
English Island 20 (August
2017): 語言交換必看小撇步,
plus notes on 2 Siri videos.
Also
hand in plotted formant charts if you didn't last Wednesday.
For next week (no class on
Monday, June 18):
CET 22 (90) 單數？複數？可數？ 不可數？
a, one, the？讓英文名詞再也難不倒你！（上) and
and CET 23 (91) 單數？複數？可數？ 不可數？ a,
one, the？讓英文名詞再也難不倒你（下）！
in No. 90, July/August 2015
and No. 91,
September/October 2015; plus:
English Island 30 (June
2018): 「抓到了！母語人士動詞時態不一致！」（我也可以不用管動詞
時態嗎？）
(2) Chapter 8: Spectrogram reading.
(3) Try to decipher this spectrogram; there
are two versions on this page for reference;
here is a third version of the same
sentence, recorded by Karen Chung.
(4) Final evaluation and
Summary of Class
Notes (submit as two
separate pdf files)
for Phonetics II
are due June 18:
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 Prof. Chung
at: feathermountain@gmail.com
no later than June
18, 2018.
(5) Book
sharing: Notes
on a Foreign Country:
An American Abroad in
a Post-American World,
by Suzy Hansen.
(6) Breaktime
music: Daniel Powter
Bad Day
video with lyrics
lyrics
6/13
(1) Hand in summary of
V&C ch 15;
summarize ch. 16
for next Wednesday, 6/13 to finish the entire book.
(2) Chapter 8: Spectrogram reading;
finish Course ch 8.
(3) Try to
decipher the spectrogram under A. in the ch 8 exercises.
(4) Also do these ch 8 exercises: A,
together with G and H; B, C, E, F.
(5) Bring a scientific calculator to class next Wednesday 6/20
for the decibels tutorial.
A mobile phone app is fine.
(6) Breaktime
music: Daniel Powter
Bad Day
video with lyrics
lyrics
Website for A Course in Phonetics
Week 17: 6/18 (holiday;
no class) and 6/20
6/20
(1) Hand in class notes and notes on:
CET 22 (90) 單數？複數？可數？ 不可數？
a, one, the？讓英文名詞再也難不倒你！（上) and
and CET 23 (91) 單數？複數？可數？ 不可數？ a,
one, the？讓英文名詞再也難不倒你（下）！
in No. 90, July/August 2015
and No. 91,
September/October 2015; plus:
English Island 30 (June
2018): 「抓到了！母語人士動詞時態不一致！」（我也可以不用管動詞
時態嗎？）
(2) Discuss and hand in summary of V&C ch 16. We've finished
Vowels & Consonants!
(3) Tutorial: 12.
Understanding Decibels.
The material in this tutorial is
relatively dense and technical, and won't be
included in the final exam. But
there is a lot of interesting and useful information in it!
(4) Make sure all missing homework is handed in and
uploaded to Google Drive.
All work, including your
final summary and evaluation,
must be submitted before you will
receive a semester grade.
(5) Breaktime
music: It Goes On
from 12 Strong by Zac Brown & Sir Rosevelt
lyrics
Note how "edge" sounds like "age"!
Thanks to Jim Chen 陳奕均.
Week 18: 6/25 and 6/27 (finals
week)
(1) Read paragraph missing from ch 8 in
newer editions of the Course.
(2) Optional
webpage: 13. The Case of the Missing
Fundamental.
(3) Go over the ch 8 exercises: A, together with G and H;
B, C, E, F.
(4) We'll cover some of the main points of chapters 9 and
10 in a very cursory way.
6/27
(1) Make sure all work
is submitted on Google Drive.
(2) Materials on Southern Min dialect will
be passed out.
(3) Grand Finale:
Special Guest Victor Thibout Demonstrates Khoomei and
Undertone Singing
http://ocw.aca.ntu.edu.tw/ntu-ocw/index.php/ocw/cou/101S213/34
(4) On your own:
Web page: 19. Vowels and Formants III:
Formants for fun and profit (with samples of
exotic music)
(5) Final exam.
Website for A Course in Phonetics
Week 11: 5/1, 5/3
(7) Book sharing: 白
話史記 (1-3) 聯經出版 1985 1769pp
(8) Breaktime music:
A very singable song that's great for practice of conditionals
using "would":
The way I Am by
Ingrid Michaelson
with lyrics lyrics
5/3:
(1) Hand in
summary of V&C ch. 6; summarize ch. 7 for next
Wednesday, 5/10.
(2) Test on Course, ch. 7, with dictation.
(3)
Transcribing Mandarin in IPA:
Transcribe the first
paragraph of this piece into IPA symbols:
http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/phonetics/PinyinpracticeF2010.pdf
Use Jimmy's table of IPA symbols
for Mandarin; remember to add a "tone
letter"
after each syllable.
(4) Begin Course, ch. 8.
(5) Breaktime music:
A very singable song that's great for practice of
conditionals using "would":
The way I Am by
Ingrid Michaelson
with lyrics lyrics
Week 12: 5/8, 5/10
5/8:
(1) Submit and
upload class notes, including notes on the new English Island article:
CET 11 (#79) 台式英語罪魁禍首：/æ/、/ɛ/ 和 /eɪ/
and 你有沒有不小心 講出「限制級英文」?
For next week: CET 12 (#80) 英語發音百樂篇（一）: Pronunciation
Potluck (1)
and CET 13 (#81) 英語發音百樂篇（二）:
Pronunciation Potluck (2) ;
also review two English Island
articles that we read last semester:
到底是Yes還是No? and 看「中文字幕」會影響英文聽力嗎？
Please share your feedback
and any questions in class.
Index of English Island articles.
(2)
Test on Course ch. 7.
(3)
Transcribing Mandarin in IPA:
Transcribe the first
paragraph of this piece into IPA symbols:
http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/phonetics/PinyinpracticeF2010.pdf
Use Jimmy's table of
IPA
symbols for Mandarin; remember to
add a "tone letter"
after each syllable.
Due Wednesday 5/10.
(4) Victor Borge: Audible punctuation marks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf_TDuhk3No
(5) Finish Web page: 8. Fundamental frequency and
harmonics: postponed till
5/10.
(6) Guitar
demonstration of modes of vibration of a string,
using guitar, tape measure,
electronic tuner, calculator: postponed till 5/10.
(7) For
reference: the speed of sound is 340.29 meters per
second;
Wikipedia gives 343.2 m/s; in
many calculations it is rounded up to 350 meters per
second.
(8)
Course, ch. 8.
(9) Breaktime music: Another great song for practicing "would"
conditionals;
watch the video carefully when you
have time!
If I Were a Boy by
Beyoncé with lyrics lyrics
5/10:
(1) Hand in
summary of V&C ch. 7; summarize ch. 8 for next
Wednesday, 5/17.
(2)
Finish Web page: 8. Fundamental frequency and
harmonics.
(3) Guitar
demonstration of modes of vibration of a string,
using guitar, tape measure,
electronic tuner, calculator.
(4) For
reference: the speed of sound is 340.29 meters per
second;
Wikipedia gives 343.2 m/s; in
many calculations it is rounded up to 350 meters per
second.
(5) Course,
ch. 8.
(6) Read web page: 16. White
noise, pink noise...orange noise???
(7)
Breaktime music:
Another great song for practicing "would" conditionals:
If I Were a Boy by
Beyoncé with lyrics lyrics
Week 13: 5/15, 5/17
5/15:
(1) Submit and
upload class notes, including notes on the new English Island article:
CET 12 (#80) 英語發音百樂篇（一）:
Pronunciation Potluck (1)
and CET 13 (#81) 英語發音百樂篇（二）:
Pronunciation Potluck (2) ;
also 到底是Yes還是No? and 看「中文字幕」會影響英文聽力嗎？
For next week: CET 14 (#82) 英語發音百樂篇（三）: Pronunciation
Potluck (3) ;
and this new English Island
article: 你是中文腦還是英文腦？
Please share
your feedback and any questions in class.
(2) Go
over Mandarin IPA transcriptions.
(3) Web page: 10. Vowels
and Formants II (with duck call demonstration)
(4) Course, ch. 8.
(5) Breaktime music: I Will
by Paul McCartney lyrics
5/17:
(1) Hand in
summary of V&C ch. 8; summarize ch. 9 for next
Wednesday, 5/24.
(2) 9. Vowels and Formants I:
Resonance (with soda bottle demonstration)
demonstration
of guitar string resonance.
(3) Course, ch. 8
(4) Breaktime music: I Will
by Paul McCartney lyrics
Week 14: 5/22, 5/24
5/22:
(1) Monday 5/29
is a holiday; we'll have a make-up
class on Saturday June 3.
(2) Submit and upload class notes and notes on
CET 14 (#82) 英語發音百樂篇（三）:
Pronunciation Potluck (3)
and English Island 你是中文腦還是英文腦？.
For next week: CET 15 (#83) 英語發音百樂篇（四）: Pronunciation
Potluck (4)
and English Island 希望、祝福、許願 英文怎麼說？
(3) Course, ch. 8: Spectrogram reading.
(4) One Small Step Can Change Your Life: with
Kaizen
(5) Breaktime music:
At Seventeen
(1976) by Janis Ian lyrics
5/24:
(1) Hand in summary of V&C ch. 9 with 2 questions;
summarize V&C ch. 10 and
write 2 questions for Wednesday, 5/31.
(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) Bring scientific calculator (a cell
phone/tablet app is fine) to class
on Wednesday 5/31 for Decibels
tutorial.
(5) Plot F1
and F2 of vowels for General American English and standard
Southern British English. Due 5/31
(6) Remember that 5/29 will be a holiday (no class), so
you will hand in
both your class notes with
article notes and notes on
Vowels and Consonants ch.
10 on Wednesday 5/31.
(7) Breaktime music:
At Seventeen
(1976) by Janis Ian lyrics
Week 15: 5/29 (holiday;
no class), 5/31, 6/3
5/29:
Holiday; no class; make-up
class on Saturday June 3.
5/31:
Note that
make-up class will be held on Saturday June 3
(1) Submit and
upload class notes and notes on
CET 15 (#83) 英語發音百樂篇（四）: Pronunciation
Potluck (4)
and English Island 希望、祝福、許願 英文怎麼說？
For next week: CET 16 (#84) and CET 17: Do not 和
don’t意思一樣嗎？英語的縮讀字（上、下）
and English Island "Goody Two Shoes" 太乖的人生有點無聊
(2) Submit summary on V&C ch.10 with 2 questions;
summarize V&C ch. 15 and
write 2 questions for next week, 6/7.
(3) Course, ch. 8: Spectrogram reading. Segment and
try to decipher two spectrograms.
(4) Karen Chung's version of the spectrogram on page 209.
(5) 12. Decibels tutorial.
will be postponed to 6/3, when everyone is present.
Have scientific calculator
or app ready.
(6) Final evaluation and Summary of Class Notes
(submit as two separate pdf files)
for Phonetics II are due June
15:
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 Prof. Chung at: feathermountain@gmail.com
no later than June 15,
2016.
(7) Breaktime music:
Logical Song
(1979) by Roger Hodgson of Supertramp lyrics
6/3: Make-up class
Make-up class for holiday on May 29.
(1) 12. Decibels tutorial.
Have scientific calculator or app ready.
(2) Course, ch. 8.
(3) Breaktime music:
Logical Song
(1979) by Roger Hodgson of Supertramp lyrics
Week 16: 6/5,
6/7
6/5:
(1) Submit and
upload class notes, including notes on
CET 16 (#84) and CET 17: Do not
和 don’t意思一樣嗎？英語的縮讀字（上、下）
and English Island "Goody Two Shoes" 太乖的人生有點無聊
For next week: CET 18 (#86) 次重音：次要的重音還是很重要！
and English Island Echo Method:
用「回音記憶」打造nativelike的語感
(2) Course, ch. 8.
(3) Breaktime music:
It's a Damn Cold Night
by Avril Lavigne lyrics
6/7:
(1) Submit
summary of V&C ch. 15;
for next Wednesday 6/15,
summarize last chapter of V&C, ch.
16.
(2) Course, ch. 8.
(3) Final evaluation and Summary of Class Notes
(submit as two separate pdf files)
for Phonetics II are due June
15.
(4) Breaktime music:
It's a Damn Cold Night
by Avril Lavigne lyrics
Week 17: 6/12, 6/14
6/12:
(1) Hand in and upload class notes, including notes
on
CET 18 (#86) 次重音：次要的重音還是很重要！
and English Island Echo Method:
用「回音記憶」打造nativelike的語感
Last English Island articles: 從100分倒扣的競爭式社交 and:
會唱這兩首歌，就學會假設語氣; also:
A Global Approach to Teaching Phrasal
Verbs, by Rita Baker.
(2) Reminder: Summary of notes and final evaluation due June
15.
(3) Read this Web page and watch the videos on your own: 17. Hearing with your eyes: The McGurk
Effect
(4) Go over last spectrogram in Chapter 8; finish chapter.
(5) Quick hop through Chapter 9.
(6) Breaktime music:
Outlaws of Love
by Adam Lambert lyics (suggested
by Betty Tsai 蔡昕芫)
(alternate choice: Breaktime music: Everybody Hurts (1994)
by R.E.M.
lyrics)
Index of English Island articles.
6/14:
(1) Hand in summaries of V&C ch. 16. We've finished Vowels
and Consonants!
(2) Finish Course ch 9; go over highlights of ch 10.
(3) Breaktime music:
Outlaws of Love
by Adam Lambert lyrics (suggested
by Betty Tsai 蔡昕芫)
(alternate choice: Breaktime music: Everybody Hurts (1994)
by R.E.M.
lyrics)
Week 18 (Finals week): 6/19, 6/21 (Final exam)
6/19:
(1) Discuss English Island articles: 從100分倒扣的競爭式社交
and: 會唱這兩首歌，就學會假設語氣; also:
A Global Approach to Teaching
Phrasal Verbs, by Rita Baker.
(2) Make sure you've submitted your summary of notes and
final evaluation,
and make sure all your class
work has been uploaded to Google Drive!
(3) Quick jaunt through Course
chapter 10.
(4) Materials on Southern Min dialect will be passed out.
(5) On your own: Watch this talk by Victor Thibout from the
June 19, 2013 NTU OCW class:
Grand Finale: Special Guest
Victor Thibout Demonstrates Khoomei and Undertone Singing
http://ocw.aca.ntu.edu.tw/ntu-ocw/index.php/ocw/cou/101S213/34
(6) Also on your own:
Web page: 19.
Vowels and Formants III: Formants for fun and profit
(with samples of exotic music)
(7) Breaktime music:
Anything But Ordinary by
Avril Lavigne lyrics (suggested by ELP
student Ashley Lee 李琬妍)
6/21:
Final exam: 5:30-7:15pm in
外教 203.
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