| SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction: Introduction to acoustics | Ladefoged, Peter. Chapter 1 in Elements of Acoustic Phonetics. Johnson, Keith. Chapter 1 in Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. |
| 2 | Audition A/D (Analog to Digital) conversion | Johnson, Keith. Chapter 2 in Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. pp. 19-33. ———. Chapter 3 in Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. |
| 3 | Position of phonetics in grammars | Flemming, Edward. "Scalar and Categorical Phenomena in a Unified Model of Phonetics and Phonology." Phonology 18 (2001): 7-44.
References (PDF) |
| 4 | Source-filter theory | Johnson, Keith. Chapters 5 and 6 in Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. |
| 5 | Acoustics of vowels Spectral analysis techniques | Ladefoged, Peter. "Fourier Analysis." Chapter 10 in Elements of Acoustic Phonetics, from p. 160. ———. "Digital Filters and LPC Analysis." Chapter 11 in Elements of Acoustic Phonetics. |
| 6 | Quantal theory Adaptive dispersion Source-filter analysis of the properties of speech sounds: Fricatives and stops | Johnson, Keith. Chapters 7 and 8 in Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. Stevens, K. N. "On the Quantal Nature of Speech." Journal of Phonetics 17 (1989): 107-121. Lindblom, Bjoern, and Olle Engstrand. "In What Sense is Speech Quantal?" Journal of Phonetics 17 (1989): 107-121. |
| 7 | Introduction to statistics | Max, Ludo, and Patrick Onghena. "Some Issues in the Statistical Analysis of Completely Randomized and Repeated Measures Designs for Speech, Language, and Hearing Research." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 42 (April 1999): 261-270. |
| 8 | Speech perception I Source-filter analysis of speech sounds: Nasals and laterals | Johnson, Keith. Chapters 4 and 9 in Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. References (PDF) |
| 9 | Speech production Models of coarticulation |
References (PDF) |
| 10 | Timing and coordination Prosody and speech production |  Chitoran, Ioana, Louis Goldstein, and Dani Byrd. "Gestural Overlap and Recoverability: Articulatory Evidence from Georgian." In Laboratory Phonology 7. Edited by Carols Gussenhoven and Natasha Warner. Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003. ISBN: 9783110170870. |
| 11 | Speech perception II: The problem of variability | Ladefoged, Peter, and D. E. Broadbent. "Information Conveyed by Vowels." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 29, no. 1 (January 1957): 98-104. |
| 12 | Student presentations | (no readings) |
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Johnson, Keith. Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2003. ISBN: 9781405101233.
Ladefoged, Peter. Elements of Acoustic Phonetics. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780226467641.
Covers much of the same material as Johnson, with somewhat different presentation.
O'Shaughnessy, Douglas. Speech Communication: Human and Machine. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1987. ISBN: 9780201165203.
Much more technical discussion of acoustic theory and DSP techniques.
Stevens, Kenneth N. Acoustic Phonetics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780262194044.
Comprehensive and authoritative presentation of the acoustic theory of speech production.
Ladefoged, Peter. A Course in Phonetics. 5th ed. Belmont, CA: Heinle, 2005. ISBN: 9781413006889.
If you need to brush up on articulatory phonetics, get hold of a copy of this text, and make sure you are familiar with the material in chapters 1-4, 6-7, and 9-10.
There is a Web site designed to accompany Ladefoged's A Course in Phonetics. This contains some useful material and exercises for reviewing topics in articulatory phonetics and transcription: UCLA Phonetics Lab Data.