825 Seminar in Advanced Phonetics G 5
Prereq: 600.01
Study of specific problems in articulatory and acoustic phonetics at an advanced level.
The problem addressed in Spring 2005 will be Phonological Acquisition -- specifically, the ontogeny of the phonological grammar and its relationship to the changing phonetic skills and evolving levels of representation in the mental lexicon of the individual child over the course of the first six years of life. The "flavor" of the course is a two-course sequence (see next paragraph), with the phonies reading group fulfilling the function of the second course in the sequence.
This seminar is offered in two flavors. When it is part of the regular academic year offerings, it is typically offered as a two-course sequence with distinct phases. The first quarter is an extensive exploration of the primary literature in some topic, leading to the design of a study or experiment that the student can then carry out alone or in collaboration with a group of classmates. The second quarter is a combination of lab meetings, where progress on the experiments is discussed, and more specialized exploration of the literature relevant to the specific studies being done. (Sometimes the first- or second- quarter course has a different number -- e.g., see description of the sequence on "perception in phonology".) When the course is offered as part of a summer "mini-institute", by contrast, the two phases are necessarily compressed or replaced by lectures and demos.
Topics that have been covered recently include:
- Perception in Phonology -- a two-quarter sequence with Ling 821 co-taught by Keith Johnson and Beth Hume
- Prosody and Processing -- a summer course offered as a set with Ling 871 (Psycholinguistics) and co-taught by Mary Beckman and Shari Speer
- The Speech Science of Speech Synthesis -- a SU2002 mini-institute course taught by Mary Beckman and offered as a set with Chris Brew's Ling 795X Building Systems to Teach Speech Synthesis
- Exemplar Models and the Buckeye Corpus -- a two quarter sequence with Ling 821 co-taught by Keith Johnson and Beth Hume.
Offered 2007-2008:
Offered 2008-2009 (projected):
Instructor's Course Pages:
Mary Beckman
Last modified 2004-09-10
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