Week 2 homework: transcription of phonation and intonation
http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/jcoleman/phonation_intonation_homework.html

1. Draw a parametric diagram that displays (a) the flow of air into and out of the body, via the mouth and nose (shown separately), and (b) the aperture (degree of opening) of the larynx during a pronunciation of the phrase: "I know she plays the trombone".

If you don't have enough time to do both questions 2 and 3 below, just pick one. But if you can make time for both, so much the better.

2. Listen to http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/jcoleman/Kassem_story/sentence1.wav and  http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/jcoleman/Kassem_story/sentence2.wav, two sentences from the story of the North Wind and the Sun, in Kassem (a Niger-Congo language of Ghana). The vowels and consonants can be broadly transcribed as follows:

Sentence 1: avio di awia mo magi nikantɔgɔso ba biri dam
Sentence 2: kanto manŋa ni mo chovelo makia di o wwaro garivoɔ

Make three transcriptions of the pitch pattern of these three sentences:

i) an 'interlinear' transcription, such as that employed by Daniel Jones, Ida Ward etc.
ii) an 'accented' transcription, using acute accent for high pitch, grave for low, circumflex for fall, hacek for rise etc.
iii) an 'autosegmental' transcription, using H for high pitch, L for low pitch, linked by association lines to the transcription of vowels and consonants.

Note also the phonation types employed. What advantages, limitations or problems do you find with each type of transcription?

3. Listen to http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/jcoleman/j-ret1-f3.wav
It's the beginning of the story of Cinderella, retold from memory by a teenage speaker of Multiethnic London English. Transcribe it into ordinary English spelling and add an interlinear transcription of the pitch movements. Mark the high and low pitch points using H and L. Describe where these 'tones' occur (with respect to the other aspects of the spoken language).