Ling 600.01 Phonetic Theory
We will do this lab in the first class meeting of Week 9. So prepare the first part of your report for that day. The final report on this lab should be submitted as an appendix to the field project report on your language consultant's obstruent contrasts (preliminary list).
You should still be eliciting wordforms that will make it possible for you to complete report 4 ("Obstruents -- preliminary list") and report 5 ("Complete consonant chart"). Organize forms for more of the consonant chart, making sure that you now have all of the rows that you will need to list all manners of articulation for the language's obstruents -- i.e., for any fricative(s), affricate(s), and stops. Update the row(s) for the fricative(s) from what you have figured out since Lab 7 and also now fill in the row(s) for other obstruent types. You do not have to have a complete set of forms for the phonation type contrasts (that's Lab 9), but you should have forms justifying all of the obstruent manners and obstruent places. Organize your questions about the transcriptions of the plosives into a list with the most pressing ones at the top. Bring to class a brief write-up of the two or three questions at the top your list, along with recordings of wordforms that you think might help you answer these questions. Try to formulate specific questions about how looking at spectra taken from the plosive release and at F2 and F3 values at the beginning and/or end of adjacent vowel(s) might bear on these questions.