Accoustic phonetics

General data

Course ID:	3201-1FONAK
Erasmus code / ISCED:	09.0 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0231) Language acquisition The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Accoustic phonetics
Name in Polish:	Fonetyka akustyczna
Organizational unit:	Institute of Applied Linguistics
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	elective courses
Short description:	The course is intended to demonstrate in multimedial form some principles for acoustic-phonetic analysis of speech. It introduces backgrounds for articulatory and acoustic aspects of speech signal analysis. Some modern computer methods of speech analysis and description, based on the acoustic features of Polish sounds are presented.
Full description:	The course is intended to teach in multimedial form basic acoustic phonetics principles, especially those related to acoustic-phonetic analysis of speech. The course is proposed to students interested in acoustical aspects of speech. The main chapters in the course are: 1. Physical backgrounds sounds generation, propagation and perception of sounds, especially those of speech sounds. 2. Acoustic-phonetic features of speech sounds 3. Computer technics in speech acoustics. 4. Coarticulation and speech sounds shapes 5. Introduction to speech perception More specific topics involve: 1. Basic notions in physical acoustics (acoustics sources, wave propagation, resonators, standing waves, frequency, intensity, sound spectra) and in subjective acoustics (pitch, loudness, duration, colours of sound) 2. Speech production theory. Source-filter model of speech production. Relation between articulation and acoustic features of speech sounds. 3. Vowels articulation: formant frequencies, vowels opositions, articulatory and acoustic vowel quadrangle, duration, nasalization 4. Consonant articulation and their acoustic cues. Relation of acoustic cues to place and manner of articulation. Cliks, aspirations. 5. Coarticulatory influence on speech acoustic features. Settings, voice quality. 6. Speech sound and phoneme. Rules of segmentation and phonetic transcription of the speech signal. Computer-readable phonetic alphabet SAMPA. 7. Technics in speech acoustics. Speech signal recordings methods. Computer speech signal editors. Background knowledge about spectrogram reading. Spectrogram readings exercises. 8. Speech suprasegmental (prosodic) acoustic features and their description. 9. Hearing and perception. Perception of speech acoustic features. 10. Examples of comparative acoustic phonetics. 11. Introduction to speech synthesis. Speech synthesis as a tool to study the speech sound structure. Corpus methods in acoustic phonetics (database EMU, PRAAT)
Bibliography:	1. Dukiewicz L., Fonetyka [w] Fonetyka i Fonologia (red. H. Wróbel), Gramatyka współczesnego języka polskiego, wyd. Instytutu Języka Polskiego PAN, Kraków, 1995. 2. Lawrence J. Raphael, Gloria J. Borden ,Katherine S. Harris Speech Science Primer: Physiology, Acoustics, and Perception of Speech, 5th Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 2007 3. Wierzchowska B., Fonetyka i fonologia języka polskiego, Ossolineum, Warszawa,1980 4. Huckvale M., Acoustics of Speech&Hearing, http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/courses/spsci/b214/week.htm 5. Gubrynowicz R., Podstawy fonetyki akustycznej (manuskrypt wykładów)

This course is not currently offered.

Course descriptions are protected by copyright.
Copyright by University of Warsaw.