Phonetics course handouts and online resources

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