Field Project Report 5 for Ling 600.01 Phonetic Theory
Report due by 5:00 on Monday of Finals Week
This report on "The Complete Consonant Chart" should be about five or (at most) six single-spaced pages, exclusive of references and appendices.
Part 1: Consonant chart table. Expand the table that you provided with Report 4 so that it now includes all of the consonant phonemes that you were able to identify for the field project language. If the language has sets of consonants made with the same manner of articulation but contrasting in phonation type, split the relevant row(s) into two sub-rows, putting less sonorant phonation types above more sonorant ones (e.g., voiceless stops above voiced stops). Also, if the language has sets of contrasting consonants made at the same place of articulation for the primary (more consonant-like) gesture but with different "secondary" articulations, split the relevent column(s) into two (or more) sub-columns, putting the sub-column with no secondary articulation (or with the more anterior secondary articulation) to the left of the column with the secondary articulation (or with the more posterior secondary articulation).
Part 2: Acoustic analysis. Get good clean recordings of the language consultant producing the words in the rows and columns that you have filled in since turning in Report 4. Choose the three or four consonants or consonant contrasts that you found most difficult to decipher and collate the information you got from doing in-class labs no. 9 and 10. Make three or four relevant figures (annotated spectrograms and/or spectra taken from relevant intervals) to support your conclusions about the most appropriate descriptions of these consonants and/or contrasts. Provide an appropriate figure caption for each figure, explaining what the figure is about.
Part 3: Appendices -- optional. If your figure captions in Part 2 answer all of the questions that you raised for yourself in in-class lab number 10, you can just say this in the figure captions and not append a redundant repetition of the questions and answers as stand-alone "final reports" on the two labs.
Part 4: Summary recording Include a CD of wave files that illustrate all of the charts that you have made in all five reports.