Linguistics 450/550: Advanced Introduction to Phonetics
Sample course info
Learning Goals
After completing this course, you should:
After completing this course, you should:
- be familiar with the anatomy of the vocal tract and the terminology used to describe speech articulations
- have a good working knowledge of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and be able to use it to transcribe speech
- have some experience hearing and producing the sounds of the world’s languages
- understand basic acoustic theory as it relates to speech sounds
- be able to use software to analyze speech sounds
- grasp the ways in which speech sounds can vary, and be able to assess patterns in variation to perform basic phonological analysis.
Syllabus & Schedule
| 550syll.pdf |
Lecture slides for entire course in one file (ppt available upon request).
| 450_lectures_fall12.pdf |
Project Guide
| mystery_lang_proj_guides_fall12.pdf |
Lab instructions
| lab-vowels_moodle_instructions.pdf |
| lab-vot_moodle_instructions.pdf |
Resources
Praat (required free software for analyzing sound files): www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/
- Instructions, demos, worksheets:
| praat.zip |
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:
| spectrograms.zip |
