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Lecture Notes



Lecture Notes

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Abbreviation Key


This course is taught by five instructors, each of which is responsible for certain lecture sessions, as shown in the table below. Please consult the following key for instructors' names:

EF = Edward Flemming
DG = David Gow
SS = Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel
DS = Donca Steriade
KS = Ken Stevens



Lecture Notes


Please note that handouts are not available for every lecture session.


SES #LECTURERSTOPICSSUBTOPICS
1KSCourse overview (PDF)

a. Distinctive features; phonological evidence and evidence from production, acoustics and perception; articulator-free features and articular-bound features

b. Basics of acoustics of speech production: acoustic sources from airflow, filtering of sources by the vocal tract

c. Some basic anatomy: breathing, lungs, larynx, oral tract, nasal cavities

d. Basics of hearing; hearing for speech

e. Air flow and its control in speech production

f. Introduction to quantal theory, enhancement

2-3KS

Features for vowels and sonorant consonants

Lecture 2 (PDF - 1.3 MB)#

Lecture 3 (PDF 1)# (PDF 2)# (PDF 3)

a. Vowel systems, relation between acoustics and articulation; vowel nasalization, glottal source for vowels

b. Waveform displays, spectrum displays, spectrograms

c. Sonorant consonants; glides, liquids, nasals

4DSWhy features

a. Learning phonology with distinctive features (PDF - 1.3 MB)

b. Inferring features

c. Natural classes (PDF - 1.0 MB)

5DSFeature values in lexical entries (PDF)

a. Experimental evidence for under specification

b. Evidence for under specification in lexical access vs. phonological evidence

6DSFeatures vs. contrastsPhonological relevance of non-contrastive features: release, syllabicity, timing
7EF, DS

Features vs. contrasts (cont.)

EF notes (PDF)

DS notes (PDF)

a. Syllable structure

b. Contrast as an alternative theory of features

8EFLexical neighborhood, frequency, predictability, effects on production and perception
9EF, DSTheories of speech perception

a. Objects of speech perception

b. Models of speech perception - relation to lexical access, the role of 'intermediate' representations, Nearey's typology of intermediate representations

10DGContext effects
11DGNormalization
12DGFeature-cue integration and assimilation (PDF)
13-14Student presentations

 








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