Accoustic phonetics 3201-1FONAK
The course is intended to teach in multimedial form basic acoustic phonetics principles, especially those related to acoustic-phonetic analysis of speech. The course is proposed to students interested in acoustical aspects of speech.
The main chapters in the course are:
1. Physical backgrounds sounds generation, propagation and perception of sounds, especially those of speech sounds.
2. Acoustic-phonetic features of speech sounds
3. Computer technics in speech acoustics.
4. Coarticulation and speech sounds shapes
5. Introduction to speech perception
More specific topics involve:
1. Basic notions in physical acoustics (acoustics sources, wave propagation, resonators, standing waves, frequency, intensity, sound spectra) and in subjective acoustics (pitch, loudness, duration, colours of sound)
2. Speech production theory. Source-filter model of speech production. Relation between articulation and acoustic features of speech sounds.
3. Vowels articulation: formant frequencies, vowels opositions, articulatory and acoustic vowel quadrangle, duration, nasalization
4. Consonant articulation and their acoustic cues. Relation of acoustic cues to place and manner of articulation. Cliks, aspirations.
5. Coarticulatory influence on speech acoustic features. Settings, voice quality.
6. Speech sound and phoneme. Rules of segmentation and phonetic transcription of the speech signal. Computer-readable phonetic alphabet SAMPA.
7. Technics in speech acoustics. Speech signal recordings methods. Computer speech signal editors. Background knowledge about spectrogram reading. Spectrogram readings exercises.
8. Speech suprasegmental (prosodic) acoustic features and their description.
9. Hearing and perception. Perception of speech acoustic features.
10. Examples of comparative acoustic phonetics.
11. Introduction to speech synthesis. Speech synthesis as a tool to study the speech sound structure. Corpus methods in acoustic phonetics (database EMU, PRAAT)
Type of course
Bibliography
1. Dukiewicz L., Fonetyka [w] Fonetyka i Fonologia (red. H. Wróbel), Gramatyka współczesnego języka polskiego, wyd. Instytutu Języka Polskiego PAN, Kraków, 1995.
2. Lawrence J. Raphael, Gloria J. Borden ,Katherine S. Harris Speech Science Primer: Physiology, Acoustics, and Perception of Speech, 5th Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 2007
3. Wierzchowska B., Fonetyka i fonologia języka polskiego, Ossolineum, Warszawa,1980
4. Huckvale M., Acoustics of Speech&Hearing, http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/courses/spsci/b214/week.htm
5. Gubrynowicz R., Podstawy fonetyki akustycznej (manuskrypt wykładów)
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