Highlighted items are future plans that may be subject to adjustment.

Monday
Wednesday
Friday
[outline] Aug 15
Introduction to this course
Phonetics in linguistic theory
[outline] Aug 17
International Phonetic Alphabet
English sounds and symbols
[lab links] Aug 19 (lab)
Introduction to Praat
English sounds and symbols
[outline] Aug 22
Properties of sound waves
Simple periodic waves
[outline] Aug 24
Complex periodic waves
[lab links] Aug 26 (lab)
Simple and complex waves
Praat: Measuring wave properties
[outline] Aug 29
Standing waves
Resonance wavelengths
[outline] Aug 31
Resonance frequencies
[lab links] Sept 2 (lab)
Praat: Tube resonances
Sept 5
HOLIDAY
[outline] Sept 7
The glottal-source wave
Source-filter model: Schwa
[lab links] Sept 9 (lab)
Source-filter model: Schwa
Narrow-band/wide-band spectra
[outline] Sept 12
Vowel symbols, descriptions
Introduction to vowel formants
[outline] Sept 14
Modeling vowel formants:
Tube model, Perturbation theory
[lab links] Sept 16 (lab)
Praat: Formant tracker, WB spectrograms; F1 x F2 plots
[outline] Sept 19
Summary: Vowel acoustics
Research questions, hypotheses
[lab links] Sept 21 (lab)
Vowel Lab working session
[lab links] Sept 23
Vowel Lab working session
Vowel Lab due
Sept 26
WELL-BEING DAY
[outline] Sept 28
Discussion: Vowel Lab
Review for exam
[outline] Sept 30 (remote!)
Fricatives: Articulation and acoustics
[outline] Oct 3
Oral stops (plosives):
Formant transitions, bursts
Oct 5
Midterm exam
[lab links] Oct 7 (lab)
Praat: Aperiodic noise
Fricative spectral analysis
[outline] Oct 10
The larynx and phonation
VOT (voice onset time)
[lab links] Oct 12
Hypotheses: VOT and PoA
CITI training due
[lab links] Oct 14 (lab)
Praat: Plosive voicing, aspiration
Hypotheses; Data graphics
[outline] Oct 17
Nasal stops
Approximants
[outline] Oct 19
Discussion: Midterm and Lab 6
Reading spectrograms
Oct 21
FALL BREAK
[outline] Oct 24
About the final project
Airstream mechanisms
[2] [handout 1] Oct 26
Reading a research paper:
From RQs to data and analysis
[article ppsl] Oct 28 (lab)
Project working session
Article proposal due
[outline] Oct 31
Digital signal processing (DSP)
Making good recordings
[article report] Nov 2 (lab)
Project working session
Article report due
[outline] Nov 4
Sociophonetics:
Community, identity, variation
[project info] Nov 7 (lab)
Project working session:
Project proposal
[outline] Nov 9
Phonation types
Project proposal due
[project info] Nov 11 (lab)
Project working session:
Analysis plan
[outline] Nov 14
Speech perception
Analysis plan due
[review] Nov 16
Review for final exam
Reading spectrograms
[project info] Nov 18 (lab)
Project working session:
Slides and presentation
[project info] Nov 21 (lab)
Project working session:
Slides and presentation
Nov 23
THANKSGIVING
Nov 25
THANKSGIVING
Nov 28
Project presentations
Asynchronous slides Tu Nov 29
Nov 30
Project presentations

** Final exam period: F Dec 9, 12-3pm **