INTRODUCTION TO PHONETICS

Required Text:Larry H. Small (1999). Fundamentals of Phonetics: A Practical Guide for Students. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. 

Required Audiotape:Larry H. Small (1999).Audiotape for Fundamentals of Phonetics: A Practical Guide for Students. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Room Assignment and Meeting Times:All lectures will be in 107 Berryhill Hall; 4:00-5:15 PM, Mondays and Wednesdays. 

Teaching Assistant:N/A..

Objectives of the Course:

1.To acquire basic competence in phonetic transcription (broad and narrow) of American English speech, including various aspects of disordered production. The focus of this aspect of the course will be to prepare students for graduate work in speech and hearing sciences.

2.To acquire basic understanding of the concepts and analysis techniques of instrumental clinical phonetics (i.e., EMG, aerodynamics, and acoustic phonetics).

Course Evaluations:

1.Three (3) in-class transcription quizzes. The quizzes will be designed to assess the student’s ability to transcribe tape-recorded spoken material. Quiz #1 will contribute 10% to the final course grade; Quizzes #2 and #3 will each contribute 15% to the final course grade. 

2.Midterm and Final examinations (each will contribute 30% to the course grade). The final exam will cover all aspects of the course but will focus on instrumental clinical phonetics. Both exams may consist of multiple choice questions, true/false, completion, matching, short answer, phonetic transcription of orthographic material, and/or orthographic transcription of phonetic material.

Notes:Practice transcription and all quizzes will be conducted in class. You are encouraged to complete all transcription exercises/assignments in the text. Although text assignments will not be collected, these will be reviewed periodically in class. Additional phonetic texts that may be helpful include:i) Shriberg and Kent, Clinical Phonetics, ii) Calvert, Descriptive Phonetics, and iii) Edwards, Applied Phonetics. These texts are available in the University's libraries. 

Honor Code:The Honor Code is, as always, in effect in this course.Students are expected to follow the policy of the code during all quizzes and exams. 

Grading Policy:Quizzes and exams may be graded according to a modified curve. This means that the performance of the class will help determine the scores used to assign letter grades. The score required to receive an “A,” for example, may vary from quiz to quiz depending upon the performance of the class. 

B.Traditional linguistic phonetics 

C.Levels of perceptual discrimination of speech

D.Overview of speech production subsystems

E.Vowels and diphthongs

F.Consonants

G.Diacritics and sounds in context 

H.Diacritics and disordered speech

I.   Clinical Instrumental Phonetics

1)Electromyography (EMG)

2)Speech Aerodynamics

3)Speech Acoustics

Note: Periodic exercises and practice in phonetic transcription will be conducted concurrently in class with the above didactic topics. Supplemental readings in speech acoustics are available through the Electronic Reserve.

·American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (Table of Contents and Abstracts available at http://professional.asha.org/resources/journals/AJSLP-index.cfm)

·Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal (Table of Contents and Abstracts available at http://www.cleftpalate-craniofaical.org/journal/)

·Folia Phoniatrica 

·Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Acoustics Research Letters Online available at http://ojps.aip.org/ARLO/)

·Journal of Phonetics (Table of Contents and Abstracts available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journals)

·Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (Table of Contents and Abstracts available at http://professional.asha.org/resources/journals/JSLHR-index.cfm)