1. 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 / —— 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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