Can we see speech sounds? 3003-C3N-HJ1
The laboratory is designed as an introductory course in acoustic speech analysis and cover 8 topics. Each new topic will be preceded by a theoretical introduction, then participants will receive exercises to do on their own based using speech samples.
● Themes:
● 1/2 Methodology of phonetic research (making a recording, listening to recordings, transcription; acoustic methods; video camera; palatography; electropalatography, aerodynamic investigations, electroarticulography). Introduction to PRAAT (recordings, creating a spectrogram and waveform, segmentation of recordings, SAMPA).
● 3/4 The source/filter model of speech: fundamental frequency F0, the relationship between harmonics and formants, the relationship between articulation and acoustics of speech sounds.
● 5/6/7 Vowel properties (articulation of oral vowels and their acoustic properties: FFT and LPC spectra, formant frequencies, formant plot, duration; vowels in isolation and in continuous speech; vowel variability (target undershoot) related to context, stress, rate of speech; vowels in idiolects; normalization procedure; target model and dynamic model.
● 8/9 Suprasegmental features of speech (stress, intonation).
● 10/11. Stop consonants. VOT
● 12/13. Glides and liquids
● 14/15. Fricatives
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Assessment criteria
Laboratory in acoustic phonetics will be credited on the basis of the total number of points for:
- homework.
Bibliography
Literature:
1. Dukiewicz L., Fonetyka [w] Fonetyka i fonologia, red. H. Wróbel, Gramatyka współczesnego języka polskiego, Kraków 1995;
2. Jassem W., Podstawy fonetyki akustycznej, PWN, Warszawa 1973.
3. Ladefoged P., Phonetic data analysis, Singapore 2011;
4. Ladefoged P., Johnson K., A Course in Phonetics, International Edition 2011;
5. Lawrence J. Raphael, Gloria J. Borden, Katherine S. Harris, Speech Science Primer: Physiology, Acoustics, and Perception of Speech, 5th Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimor 2007;
6. Machač P., Skarnitzl R., Principles of phonetic segmentation, Epocha, Praha 2009.
7. Wierzchowska B., Fonetyka i fonologia języka polskiego, Warszawa 1980;
8. Huckvale M., Acoustics of Speech&Hearing, http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/courses/spsci/b214/week.htm
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