L541: Weekly Lecture Schedule
Spring 2008

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Announcements

L541 Class Schedule

Week

Date (Monday)

Topics

Readings

1

Jan 12

Introduction:

Transcription,

Ladefoged, Chs. 1 & 2

2

Jan 19
(no class on Mon)

The IPA Basics

Supra-laryngeal Physiology

Ladefoged, Ch. 3

(L&M, Ch. 1)

3

Jan 26

Consonant and Vowel

Categorization

Ladefoged, Ch. 4

4

Feb 2

Narrow Transcription

 

Ladefoged, Ch. 7

5

Feb 9

Exotic Consonants

 

Ladefoged, Ch. 6

 

6

Feb 16

Aerodynamics,

Physiology and Function of the Pulmonic System

(BHR, pp. 58 - 72)

7

Feb 23

Laryngeal Physiology,

Airstream Mechanisms

and Laryngeal Contrasts

(BHR, pp. 72 -88)

8

March 2
Mid-term
(Mar 1)

Problems with Transcription: Prosodic Structure

 

Ladefoged, Chs. 5 & 10

9

March 9

Linguistic Uses of Pitch Duration, Juncture, and Stress

 

 

 

 

Major Breath Group Juncture

 

10

March 23

Basic Acoustics

Source Filter Theory

 

Johnson, Sect. 1 & 2, (BHR, Ch. 3)

11

March 30

Acoustics of the Source

Resonance

Ladefoged, Chs. 8 & 9,

Johnson, Sect. 4 + 5,

(BHR pp. 90 - 114)

12

April 6

Perturbation Theory and the Acoustics of Vowels

Acoustics of Obstruents

Johnson, Sect. 6 & 7

13

April 13

Articulatory to Acoustic Mapping,

Spectrogram Reading

Johnson, Sect. 8,

(BHR, pp. 115 - 138)

14

April 20

Quantitative Analysis and

Variability

Handling Data

Phonetic Intent

Ladefoged, Ch. 11

 (Partially relevant: BHR, pp. 151 - 170)

15

April 27

Projects

Review

 (Johnson, Sect. 3, BHR, Ch. 6.)

Final

 

Final: May 4 (Mon), 2:45 – 4:45

 

BHR = Borden, Harris, and Raphael.  Note: L&M = Ladefoged and Maddieson.  L&M provides a comprehensive cross-linguistic description of the contrasts we discuss over the first 8 weeks, and is best used as a reference material for any particular set of contrasts one is wondering about.  The introduction is also an excellent discussion of what the IPA is about.