Phonetics

Code:

CL009

Acronym:

FONET

Instance: 2016/2017 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Language Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CL	33	CL - Study Plan	1	-	6	4
EPL	4	Study Plan	3	-	6	4

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

Narrow phonetic transcription of real speech samples - Sampling, recording, acoustic analysis and laboratorial analysis of speech files - Identification and description of the main acoustic and articulatory properties of speech sounds

Learning outcomes and competences

1. Advanced skills of doing and processing narrow phonetic transcription of speech samples (from Portuguese and other languages).
2. Explicit identification and description of phenomena of sociophonetic variation.
3. Advanced skills of speech samples' recording, manipulation, linguistic labelling and acoustic analysis.
4. Exlicit description of articulatory and acoustic properties of speech signals.
5. Ability to select the main articulatory and aacoustic cues most relevant for speech synthesis and recognition.

Working method

B-learning

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

1. Basic notions about speech sound classes.
2. Rough knowledge of the main IPA symbols.
3. Fundamentals of what is phonetics and its place in linguistic description.

Program

1. The Speech Chain (Denes & Pinson).


2. Phonetics as the scientific study of the sounds of speech.


3. Phonetic transcription of speech: narrow vs. broad transcription.


4. The main branches of phonetics in relation to the Speech Chain: the acoustics, production and perception of speech.


5. Articulatory phonetics.

5.1. Functional description of the main anatomical structures involved with speech production in several languages spoken in the world.

5.2. The traditional articulatory classification of the sounds of Portuguese: standard and non-standard varieties.

1. Acoustic phonetics.

6.1.The fundamentals of speech acoustics.

6.2. The source-filter theory of speech production.

6.3. Acoustic analysis of speech sounds.

1. Auditory phonetics.

7.1. Audition and the peripheral processing of speech signals.

7.2. The higher levels of speech perception: categorical perception and lexical-semantic access.

Mandatory literature

Hardcastle, William J. 340; The handbook of phonetic sciences. ISBN: 0-631-18848-7 (A 2nd edition was published in 2010. To be purchased by the Library.)
International Phonetic Association; Handbook of the International Phonetic Association. ISBN: 0-521-63751-1
Johnson, Keith; Acoustic and auditory phonetics. ISBN: 1-4051-0123-7
Kent, Ray D.; The acoustic analysis of speech. ISBN: 1-56593-364-8
Ladefoged, Peter; A^course in phonetics. ISBN: 0-15-507319-2
Ladefoged, Peter; The sounds of the world.s languages. ISBN: 0-631-19815-6
Speaks, Chrles E.; Introduction to Sound. Acoustics for the Hearing and Speech Sciences, Singular, 1992
Veloso, João; Na ponta da língua. ISBN: 972-8594-01-1

Complementary Bibliography

Lieberman, Philip; Speech physiology, speech perception and acoustic phonetics. ISBN: 0-521-31357-0
Martins, Maria Raquel Delgado; Ouvir falar. ISBN: 972-21-0646-5
Martins, Maria Raquel Delgado; Fonética do português. ISBN: 972-21-1453-0
Emiliano, António; Fonética do português europeu. ISBN: 978-972-665-614-2
Pullum, Geofrey K.; Phonetic symbol guide. ISBN: 0-226-68532-2
Martinez Celdrán, Eugenio; El sonido en la comunicacion humana. ISBN: 84-8063-156-2
Roach, Peter; Phonetics. ISBN: 0-19-437239-1
Clark, John; An introduction to phonetics and phonology. ISBN: 0-631-16182-1
Ladefoged, Peter; Vowels and consonants. ISBN: 0-631-21412-7
Ladefoged, Peter; Phonetic data analysis. ISBN: 0-631-23270-2
Ladefoged, Peter; Preliminaries to linguistic phonetics
Denes, Peter B.; The^speech chain. ISBN: 0-7167-2344-1
Fant, Gunnar; Speech Acoustics and Phonetics: Selected Writings, Kluwer, 2006

Teaching methods and learning activities

Students do individual work to develop the main outcomes of this course: phonetic transcription; speech sampling; acoustic analysis of speech sounds; design of simple acoustic and auditory phonetics experiments. In the classroom, the main contents are presented, practical work (incl. laboratorial work) is completed. Students are expected to complete the information they get in the lectures through individual study and reading. Lectures are accompanied by some tutorial visits: e.g., the Anatomy Institute of the Medical School, in order to observe in a human corpse a phonatory apparatus. At the beginning of the semester, students are given a list of assignments which are mandatory for assessment. These usually comprehend a written test, an essay on dialectal variation (with the recording, transcription and comment of a real speech sample), a reading report, an experiment report. Some of these tasks are supposed to be attained through work in small groups. Main software: Praat.

Software

UCL BROWSE
UCL HEARLOSS
WASP
UCL RTGram
UCL VT DEMO
UCL COCHSYM
UCL EFxHIST
PRAAT
UCL SPEECH FILLING SYSTEM

keywords

Physical sciences > Physics > Acoustics
Technological sciences > Engineering > Sound engineering
Humanities > language sciences > Linguistics > Phonetics
Humanities > language sciences > Linguistics
Humanities > language sciences > Linguistics > Dialectology
Social sciences > Psychological sciences > Cognitive science

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Teste	55,00
Trabalho de campo	10,00
Trabalho escrito	15,00
Trabalho laboratorial	10,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	60,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Trabalho de campo	18,00
Trabalho de investigação	20,00
Trabalho laboratorial	10,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

As stipulated by the Rules of Attendance at FLUP. Each student is supposed to attend mandatorily at least 75% of the sessions of each course.

Calculation formula of final grade

Weighted average of the assessment items as described above.

Examinations or Special Assignments

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Internship work/project

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Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

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Classification improvement

Accordingly to the general procedures and deadlines made obligatory by FLUP regulations.
It presupposes that, in accordance with such requirements, students willing to have a second assessment should repeat:
- the written test, with a new weightening of the new questionnaire;
- in certain cases also: some of the assessment items presented during the semester, under explicit conditions which will be decided mutually and in written form by the instructor and the student.
In any case, the final classification, duly registered at the student's individual records, will be the highest (first or second assessment).

Observations

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