| SES # | LECTURERS | TOPICS | SUBTOPICS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KS | Course overview | a. Distinctive features; phonological evidence and evidence from production, acoustics and perception; articulator-free features and articular-bound features b. Basics of acoustics of speech production: acoustic sources from airflow, filtering of sources by the vocal tract c. Some basic anatomy: breathing, lungs, larynx, oral tract, nasal cavities d. Basics of hearing; hearing for speech e. Air flow and its control in speech production f. Introduction to quantal theory, enhancement |
| 2-3 | KS | Features for vowels and sonorant consonants | a. Vowel systems, relation between acoustics and articulation; Vowel nasalization, glottal source for vowels b. Waveform displays, spectrum displays, spectrograms c. Sonorant consonants; Glides, liquids, nasals |
| 4 | DS | Why features | a. Learning phonology with distinctive features b. Inferring features c. Natural classes |
| 5 | DS | Feature values in lexical entries | a. Experimental evidence for underspecification b. Evidence for underspecification in lexical access vs. phonological evidence |
| 6 | DS | Features vs. contrasts | Phonological relevance of non-contrastive features: release, syllabicity, timing |
| 7 | EF, DS | Features vs. contrasts (cont.) | a. Syllable structure b. Contrast as an alternative theory of features |
| 8 | EF | Lexical neighborhood, frequency, predictability, effects on production and perception | |
| 9 | EF, DS | Theories of speech perception | a. Objects of speech perception b. Models of speech perception - relation to lexical access, the role of 'intermediate' representations, Nearey's typology of intermediate representations |
| 10 | DG | Context effects | |
| 11 | DG | Normalization | |
| 12 | DG | Feature-cue integration and assimilation | |
| 13-14 | Student presentations |