Overview
Description
Principles of linguistic phonetics: physiology of human speech production, acoustic analysis of speech sounds, experimental design, and fieldwork methods. Covers use of acoustic analysis software and ethics in human subjects research.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- describe the roles played by the parts of the human vocal tract in the production of speech sounds.
- characterize the principal acoustic properties of each category of speech sound.
- make basic interpretations of spectrograms and waveforms.
- design, run, and analyze the results of a speech-production experiment.
- synthesize empirical and theoretical arguments from academic literature with their own work.
- conduct basic quantitative analysis of the data collected for their term project.