Dynamic Phonetics and Acoustic Phonetics
Hilary Term 2009
Mondays, 12:00, Taylorian 2
Audience: These lectures are intended for any students who have not studied these topics before, whatever degree course they may be following. Note that the course starts in week 2: in week 1 at this time, Dr Payne will be giving the last of her Prelims phonology lectures held over from last term.
Weeks 2-4: Dynamic Phonetics
Week 2
Multiple Articulation and Coarticulation (unicode HTML version | pdf version)
Secondary and double articulation exercises
Week 3
Timing and sequencing in consonants and vowels (unicode HTML version)
Week 4
Weeks 5-8: Acoustic Phonetics - a short introduction
Acoustic Phonetics Reading List
Week 5
Why should linguists study acoustic phonetics?
"We speak in order to be heard"
Sound waves
Variations in Air Pressure
How microphones work
Week 6
Harmonics and spectra
Practical: Tube models of the vocal tract
Week 7
No lecture
Week 8
The Source-Filter Model of Speech Production
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