Can we see speech sounds?

obligatory courses

(in Polish) Student powinien zaliczyć wykład i ćwiczenia z gramatyki opisowej języka polskiego.

Classroom

This laboratory is designed as an introductory course in acoustic phonetics. It is based on the software Praat, created by Paul Boersma and David Weenink (www.praat.org), and covers measurement techniques useful for basic acoustic analysis of speech.

The laboratory is designed as an introductory course in acoustic speech analysis and cover 8 topics. Each new topic will be preceded by a theoretical introduction, then participants will receive exercises to do on their own based using speech samples.

● Themes:

● 1/2 Methodology of phonetic research (making a recording, listening to recordings, transcription; acoustic methods; video camera; palatography; electropalatography, aerodynamic investigations, electroarticulography). Introduction to PRAAT (recordings, creating a spectrogram and waveform, segmentation of recordings, SAMPA).

● 3/4 The source/filter model of speech: fundamental frequency F0, the relationship between harmonics and formants, the relationship between articulation and acoustics of speech sounds.

● 5/6/7 Vowel properties (articulation of oral vowels and their acoustic properties: FFT and LPC spectra, formant frequencies, formant plot, duration; vowels in isolation and in continuous speech; vowel variability (target undershoot) related to context, stress, rate of speech; vowels in idiolects; normalization procedure; target model and dynamic model.

● 8/9 Suprasegmental features of speech (stress, intonation).

● 10/11. Stop consonants. VOT

● 12/13. Glides and liquids

● 14/15. Fricatives

Literature:

1. Dukiewicz L., Fonetyka [w] Fonetyka i fonologia, red. H. Wróbel, Gramatyka współczesnego języka polskiego, Kraków 1995;

2. Jassem W., Podstawy fonetyki akustycznej, PWN, Warszawa 1973.

3. Ladefoged P., Phonetic data analysis, Singapore 2011;

4. Ladefoged P., Johnson K., A Course in Phonetics, International Edition 2011;

5. Lawrence J. Raphael, Gloria J. Borden, Katherine S. Harris, Speech Science Primer: Physiology, Acoustics, and Perception of Speech, 5th Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimor 2007;

6. Machač P., Skarnitzl R., Principles of phonetic segmentation, Epocha, Praha 2009.

7. Wierzchowska B., Fonetyka i fonologia języka polskiego, Warszawa 1980;

8. Huckvale M., Acoustics of Speech&Hearing, http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/courses/spsci/b214/week.htm

Laboratory in acoustic phonetics will be credited on the basis of the total number of points for:

- homework.