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

Monday
Wednesday
Friday
  [outline] Aug 20
Introduction to course
Phonetics in linguistic theory
[outline] Aug 22
Praat basics
Phonetic description of vowels
[outline] Aug 25
Basic wave properties
Sine waves
[outline] Aug 27
Complex waves
Aug 29
Calculating resonance frequencies
Sept 1
LABOR DAY
Sept 3
The source-filter model
Schwa formants
Sept 5
Vowel articulations and the perturbation model
Sept 8
Vowel articulations and the perturbation model (cont.)
Sept 10
Spectrograms
Graphing vowel formants
Sept 12
Vowel IPA symbols and vowel phonetics
Sept 15
Vowel properties beyond height, backness
Sept 17
Vowels: Wrap-up
Review for exam
Sept 19
EXAM #1
Sept 22
The vocal tract
Fricative place of articulation
Sept 24
Acoustics of fricatives
Sept 26
Larynx, phonation, VOT
Sept 29
Acoustics of stops, affricates
Oct 1
Articulation and IPA: stops, affricates, fricatives
Oct 3
Reading the experimental phonetics literature
Oct 6
Reading the experimental phonetics literature
Oct 8
Acoustics of nasals
Oct 10
Articulation and IPA: nasals
Oct 13
Acoustics of approximants
Oct 15
Articulation and IPA: approximants
Oct 17
FALL BREAK
Oct 20
Lab #2 planning
Oct 22
Consonants: Wrap-up
Reading spectrograms
Oct 24
Review for exam
Oct 27
EXAM #2
(tentative date)
Oct 29
Oct 31
Nov 3
Nov 5
Nov 7
Nov 10
Nov 12
Nov 14
Nov 17
Nov 19
Nov 21
Nov 24
Nov 26
THANKSGIVING
Nov 28
THANKSGIVING
Dec 1
Dec 3
 

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