1  Tu

8/23

Administrative. Info sheets.  Intro: describing speech sounds, vocal tract anatomy, articulation.

Course in Phonetics 1-7

1  Th

8/25

Drawing mid-sagittal diagrams. Voice. Principles of transcription. Begin consonants.

CiP 7-18

2  Tu

8/30

English consonants: voicing, place, manner, lateral, nasal

HW 1: CiP 24-31 A-F, J

2  Th

9/1

English vowels. Vowel dimensions: height, frontness, rounding. Monophthongs/diphthongs, vowel transcription.

CiP 18-22,
Vowels h.o.

3  Tu

9/6

Broad and narrow transcription. Phonetic detail.

CiP 22-24

3  Th

9/8

Phonemes/allophones, contrast/noncontrast.
Phonological processes: observation & prediction

CiP 33-47

HW 1 due.

4  Tu

9/13

Syllables, sonority, syllable division. English consonants and clusters.

CiP 55-76, 237-244,  Syllables h.o.

HW 2: CiP 48-50A-D, H-J 

4  Th

9/15

English consonants: Alternants and variants. 

5  Tu

9/20

English vowels. Diphthongs, dialect differences,  allophones Vowel transcription

CiP 83-100,
English h.o.

Signup: Conference time

5  Th

9/22

English vowels: length, tenseness.  Stress. ‘Suprasegmentals’:  pitch, tone, intonation.

Stress handout

HW 2 due. 
HW 3: CiP 77-81 A-D, G

6  Tu

9/27

Transcription practice, team transcription.

EXTRA

9/28-10/6

Conferences: phonetics goals, ear training aids.

6  Th

9/29

Review.
Transcription/Production Quiz 1 : Basics

HW 3 due.
HW4:CiP102-3 H-I, 129 B,D, E

7  Tu

10/4

Intonation, tone, pitch accent.

CiP 116-124, 243-254

Signup: Lab Demo time

7  Th

10/6

Air stream mechanisms: pulmonic, glottalic, velaric.

CiP 133-152

HW 4 due.
HW5:CiP 52-155 A,B,E

EXTRA

10/5-7

Lab Demos I:  wave forms, spectrograms, etc.

8 Tu

10/11

Phonation types. Timing of articulators, VOT.

HW 5 due.

8  Tu

10/13

Review.

9  Tu

10/18

Midterm exam.  Ch 1,2,3,4,6,10 & handouts

9  Th

10/20

Places & manners of articulation.

CiP 159-176

10  Tu

10/25

Places & manners.  Transcription/production practice.  Team transcription.

10  Th

10/27

Transcription/production practice.  

HW 6: TBA

11  Tu

11/1

Transcription/Production Quiz 2 (Consonants)

11  Th

11/3

Vowels, formants. Sonority vs color. Diphthongs.

CiP 211-233

12  Tu

11/8

Non-English vowels:articulation, perception, acoustics

Signup: Practice time

12  Th

11/10

Semivowels, secondary articulations. 

13  Tu

11/15

Transcription/production practice, Team transcription.

EXTRA

11/15-16

Production & transcription practice.
(Tentative times: Tu 3:00,Wed. 10:30, 11:30) 

13  Th

11/17

Transcription/Production Quiz 3 (Vowels)

CiP 181-208

HW 6 due.

14  Tu

11/22

Acoustic phonetics introduction 

Begin HW 7: TBA

14  Th

11/24

Holiday – Thanksgiving Day

15  Tu

11/29

Lab demo II: Wave forms, spectrograms, etc.

15  Th

12/1

Lab demo III: Acoustic correlates of place and manner.  (Tentative.)

16  Tu

12/6

Acoustic correlates of place and manner.
Course evaluations

HW 7 due.

16  Th

12/8

No class.