LSA.200 | Acoustic Phonetics

Keith Johnson
MW 2:55-4:35
location: 56-114

This course will be a hands-on introduction to acoustic phonetic analysis. There will be brief background discussions of acoustics terminology, digital signal processing, and the acoustic theory of speech production. Then the majority of the course will be devoted to practical measurement problems and strategies using recordings contributed by both students and teacher spanning all major classes of speech sounds from a range of languages. During this portion of the course we will discuss designing acoustic phonetic studies, field and studio techniques in recording speech, and the strengths and weaknesses of various acoustic speech analysis software packages.

Required Textbooks
Title: Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics
Author: Keith Johnson
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing 2nd edition
ISBN: 1405101237

Title: Acoustic Phonetics
Author: Kenneth N. Stevens
Publisher: MIT Press/ paperback edition
ISBN: 0262692503