Goals:
One of the primary goals of our weekly lab meetings is to provide a comfortable environment and time for individual and group participation. Participation includes not only sharing in group discussions, but a willingness to make 'funny' sounds, to observe your own and others' articulations, and to experience hands-on trial and error use of instrumentation.
l Weekly homework assignments (collected in lab, late work penalized)
2 Transcription exams
l Group phonetic experiment with individual write-up
Working on homework assignments with other class members is permitted, but the work you turn in should reflect your own assessments. You can download weekly homework assignment under Homework Assignments column in Lab Schedule. Homework will typically be due one week after being assigned, but specific due dates will be given with each assignment.
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week |
Date |
Topics |
Homework Assignments |
Project time-line & Resources |
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1 |
Jan 15 & 16 |
Classmate introductions Baseline survey/Quiz Technical terms [outline] |
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Start to think about topics/groups |
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2 |
Jan 22 & 23 |
Download IPA font Online insertion (Chart I, Chart II by Ladefoged) Introductions to WaveSurfer [outline] |
Recording and Analysis software: MS Excel from IUware; Several workshops from IT Training & Education (free for IU students) |
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3 |
Jan 29 & 30 |
Cardinal Vowels, primary, secondary British American suggested answer Human Subjects and Informed Consent: Tutorial & Test [outline] |
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Form project groups; submit 3 broad project topics (e-mail to both Dr. de Jong and Yen-Chen by Sunday noon) |
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4 |
Feb 5 & 6 |
Narrow transcription: gadiency in signal e.g., dark ¡¥1¡¦, light ¡¥l¡¦, (un)aspirated ¡¥t¡¦, prevoiced & ¡¥d¡¦, peeta, pita, pida Creating & handing sound files Recording room tour (M336) [outline] |
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5 |
Feb 12 & 13 |
Narrow transcription Data handling with MS Excel: formant extraction using WaveSurfer & Praat Writing a project prospectus: sample [outline] |
Pass human subjects test ¡@ |
Get final approval for topics and groups |
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6 |
Feb 19 & 20 |
Non-English transcription - Ewe, Hindi, Malayalam, Hebrew Project design [outline] |
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7 |
Feb 26 & 27 |
Transcription exam I Pulmonic Mechanism: [outline] |
Transcription exam I ¡@ |
Preliminary project prospectus due |
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8 |
Mar 5 & 6 |
Orchestration schemes 4 stop consonants: Sindhi Examples of different voice quality and laryngeal contrast vowel duration measurement sound file [outline] |
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9 |
Mar 12 & 13 |
Different voice quality Clicks, ejectives, implosives F0 extraction using: WaveSurfer Praat [outline] |
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Final project prospectus due |
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Spring Break! |
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10 |
Mar 26 & 27 |
Tone & Intonation Examples: Intonation transcription [outline] |
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11 |
Apr 2 & 3 |
F0 estimation from waveform, broadband & narrowband spectrogram, spectrum Duration effects in English Quantity distinction in languages [outline] |
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12 |
Apr 9 & 10 |
Transcription Exam II Estimating acoustic properties: Sine waves1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,11,12 Formants: American English vowels feet, cot, pin, caught, pen, could, fat, boot Formants: female vs. male cat / cat, got / got, kit / mist / nicks [outline] |
Transcription exam II ¡@ |
Data collection (e.g., recordings) done |
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Spectrogram reading: Consonants: soup/ship, that/thin, thigh/sigh, razor/lessor, chevron, Jacob/rude/wad, ran/ram/rang, cat/got, edge Spectrogram Reading: quiz: sound file |
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13 |
Apr 16 & 17 |
Project work time |
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Measurement schemes due April 15 |
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14 |
Apr 23 & 24 |
Project Work Time |
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First graph and figure due April 22 |
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15 |
Apr 30 & May 1 |
Project Work Time |
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Project Due (Noon, Friday, May 1)
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Final |
May 4 |
Final Exam |
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