Phonetics

LING 497 Phonetic Analysis: Articulation, Acoustics, Audition

The Pennsylvania State University

Prof. Deborah Morton

Based on Johnson, Keith. (2012). Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. 3rd Ed. Wiley-Blackwell.

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Revised

25 May 2023

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Sections

• Articulatory Phonetics
• The Acoustic Theory of Speech Production
• Speech Processing
• Auditory Phonetics
• Speech Perception
• Analysis of Speech Sounds
• Acoustic properties of Anii vowels
• Acoustics and audition
• Sociophonetic properties of vowels and fricatives
• Analysis of a stop continuum
• Acoustic and auditory properties of speech sounds

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Texts

• Baayen, R. H. (2008). Analyzing Linguistic Data: A Practical Introduction to Statistics using R. Cambridge University Press.

• [ h ] Bäckström, Tom et al. (2022). Introduction to Speech Processing. 2e.

• Hammond, Michael. (2020). Python for Linguists. Cambridge University Press.

• Johnson, Keith. (2012). Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. 3rd Ed. Wiley-Blackwell.

  • Keith Johnson’s sgram for creating spectrograms with Python

• Johnson, Keith. (2008). Quantitative Methods in Linguistics. Wiley-Blackwell.

• [W] Labov, William; Sharon Ash; & Charles Boberg. (2006). The Atlas of North American English. Berlin: Mouton-de Gruyter.

• [W] Ladefoged, Peter & Keith Johnson. (2014). A Course in Phonetics. Cengage. Home.

• [W] Ladefoged, Peter & Ian Maddieson. (1996). The Sounds of the World’s Languages. Wiley-Blackwell.

• Reetz, Henning; & Allard Jongman. (2020). Phonetics: Transcription, Production, Acoustics, and Perception. 2nd Ed. Wiley-Blackwell.

• Winter, Bodo. (2019). Statistics for Linguists: An Introduction Using R. Routledge.

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Resources

International Phonetic Association

The Speech Accent Archive

Penn Linguistics - TELSUR & Atlas North American English

R lang

Praat

• Boersma, Paul & David Weenink. Praat: doing phonetics by computer.

  • Intro

  • Scripting

• UCLA’s Praat script resources

• [Y] Ian Wilson. (04 Jan 2018). “Praat - Creating a Formant Object”. YouTube.

• [Y] Ian Wilson. (21 Dec 2017). “Praat - Manipulation of Pitch and Duration”. YouTube.

• [Y] Ian Wilson. (14 Dec 2017). “TextGrid_Script”. YouTube.

• [Y] Ian Wilson. (07 Dec 2017). “Praat functions - #1-10”. YouTube.

• [Y] Ian Wilson. (21 Jun 2017). “Praat - recording, saving, playing, and zooming”. YouTube.

UNSW

• Helium Speech

• What is a formant?

Miscellaneous

• Alvin Chen

• Kristopher Kyle

• Pitt’s LING1330 Introduction to Computational Linguistics

• The Virtual Linguistics Campus YouTube

• Seeing Speech

• Dynamic Dialects

review

• https://www.mq.edu.au/about/about-the-university/our-faculties/medicine-and-health-sciences/departments-and-centres/department-of-linguistics/our-research/phonetics-and-phonology/speech/acoustics/speech-acoustics/fricatives

• https://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/formant.html

• https://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/speechmodel.html

• https://sail.usc.edu/~lgoldste/General_Phonetics/Tone/Measurement/measurement.html

• https://github.com/yukat237/Praat_Scripting_Lecture/blob/main/Praat Script to make a F1 F2 table (with explanations)

• https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/demarneffe.1/LING5050/material/NewPraat.html

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNZlSvzHHHk

• https://www.mq.edu.au/about/about-the-university/our-faculties/medicine-and-health-sciences/departments-and-centres/department-of-linguistics/our-research/phonetics-and-phonology/speech/acoustics/speech-acoustics/fricatives

• https://sail.usc.edu/~lgoldste/General_Phonetics/Source_Filter/SFd.html

• https://sail.usc.edu/~lgoldste/General_Phonetics/

• https://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/dB.htm

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Terms

• [S] Auditory Perception

• [S] Sounds

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