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Phonetics Laboratory
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics

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

Prosody (Suprasegmentals)

Prosody examples

 

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