Advanced Phonetics - LAN00069M
- Department: Language and Linguistic Science
- Credit value: 10 credits
- Credit level: M
- Academic year of delivery: 2022-23
Module will run
| Occurrence | Teaching period |
|---|---|
| A | Autumn Term 2022-23 |
Module aims
This module aims:
to give students an understanding of the acoustics of speech, how speech acoustics relates to production and perception in articulatory terms
to equip students with the ability to reason about speech based on a range of phonetic evidence and using theoretical as well as practical tools
to equip students with the ability to design simple but effective data collection for further analysis
Module learning outcomes
You will know and understand the essentials of the acoustics of speech, including:
Sound as an acoustic and auditory phenomenon
The source-filter theory of speech production
Acoustic properties of the source and filter
Articulation and resonance
Common ways of representing speech acoustically: waveforms, spectrograms, spectra, F0 traces
Contextual effects on speech sounds (illustrated through English)
How the acoustics of speech relates to articulation
You will know and understand the essentials of speech perception, including:
The basics of hearing
Acoustic cues to speech sounds
Categorical perception
You will know and understand some of the issues in data collection, including:
Making recordings
Sampling in digital recordings
Designing materials for recording
You will be able to do the following things:
Reason about speech production and perception, combining articulatory, acoustic and auditory evidence
Use software for the acoustic analysis of speech, and to produce images for insertion into documents
Design a simple acoustic phonetic study, taking ethics into account
Indicative assessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Online Exam - 24 hrs (Centrally scheduled) | 100 |
Special assessment rules
None
Indicative reassessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Online Exam - 24 hrs (Centrally scheduled) | 100 |
Module feedback
Written feedback within 20 working days.
Indicative reading
Gloria Borden, Katherine S. Harris, Lawrence J. Raphael: Speech Science Primer
Nigel Hewlett, Janet Beck: An introduction to the Science of Phonetics
Keith Johnson. Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics (3rd edition), Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
J. M. Pickett: The Acoustics of Speech Communication