CDIS 3313: Phonetics
Sample course info
This course is all about speech sounds: how they’re made, described, transcribed, and measured. The course will help you meet ASHA Knowledge Standard IV-C by becoming familiar with:
See the syllabus and sample materials below.
- Transcription (IPA) of typical and disordered American English, plus some in another language
- The vocal tract and articulatory descriptions of speech sounds
- Acoustic features of English sounds and how to read spectrograms
- Dialectal variation
See the syllabus and sample materials below.
Syllabus & Schedule
| phonetics_2021.pdf |
Selected Lecture Slides (PPTs/sound files available upon request)
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| ch9-variation.pdf |
"Mystery Language" Project Guide
| mystery_lang_proj_guide.pdf |
Resources
IPA charts, sounds, fonts (as of 2018):
- Interactive IPA sounds, symbols, anatomy: soundsofspeech.uiowa.edu & smu-facweb.smu.ca/~s0949176/sammy
- Interactive IPA charts: web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/charts/IPAlab/IPAlab.htm & www.paulmeier.com/ipacharts
- IPA Unicode fonts (download to use): software.sil.org/charis & software.sil.org/doulos
- IPA keyboard layout (download to type in IPA directly): www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/phonetics
- Quirk/Tip for installing this layout: Uninstall Charis and Doulos fonts before installing the keyboard layout, then reinstall them afterward. If you forget to uninstall them, the keyboard installation process will pop up an error window for each font. Click Ignore. When it finishes installing, go back and reinstall Charis and Doulos (or the fonts will cause quirks like permanent Italics in Word).
- Online IPA character pickers (copy and paste characters from the web, e.g. if you can't download an IPA font): ipa.typeit.org & westonruter.github.io/ipa-chart/keyboard & r12a.github.io/pickers/ipa
- Ethnologue (languages' families, speakers, etc.): www.ethnologue.com
- Multi-tree/E-MELD (language documentation collective): multitree.linguistlist.org
- UCLA Language Archive (w/ audio files): archive.phonetics.ucla.edu
- Audio of speakers around the world: www.dialectsarchive.com & accent.gmu.edu
- Do You Speak American? PBS series/resources: www.pbs.org/speak
- Links to English-dialect-related sites: eulingual.com/english/english-accents
- Mystery Spectrograms (tips, practice reading): home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~robh/howto.html
- Acoustics animations (sound waves, vibrations): www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/demos.html
- Tutorial on plosives: www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wtutor?tutorial=siphtra/plostut1/plostut1.htm
- Misc apps (Alvin = transcription and phoneme practice quizzes): homepages.wmich.edu/~hillenbr
- Worksheets:
