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Phonetics Course Syllabus Sample

This course syllabus outlines the content and requirements for a Phonetics course at Reed College in Spring 2020. Students will learn about speech sounds and their articulation, as well as practicing transcription. Assessment includes homework, quizzes, exercises testing sound production, two midterm exams, and a final project where students describe the phonetics of an unfamiliar language. The course introduces articulatory and acoustic phonetics using required textbooks. Class meetings involve lectures, demonstrations of unfamiliar languages, and transcription practice.

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Phonetics Course Syllabus Sample

This course syllabus outlines the content and requirements for a Phonetics course at Reed College in Spring 2020. Students will learn about speech sounds and their articulation, as well as practicing transcription. Assessment includes homework, quizzes, exercises testing sound production, two midterm exams, and a final project where students describe the phonetics of an unfamiliar language. The course introduces articulatory and acoustic phonetics using required textbooks. Class meetings involve lectures, demonstrations of unfamiliar languages, and transcription practice.

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Course syllabus

Phonetics
LING 320, Spring 2020, Reed College

Instructor: Sameer ud Dowla Khan (he/they)


Email: skhan@reed.edu
Phone: ext. 4018 (off-campus: 503-517-4018)
Time & place: Tue/Thu 3:10–4:30PM, in PAB 104
Office hours: Wed 3:00–5:00PM, Fri 1:00–2:00PM, and by appointment, in Eliot 101C

Introduction

This course will introduce you to the study of the physical aspects of speech. You will learn how to produce,
perceive, and transcribe the sounds of the world’s languages, while learning the acoustic and articulatory properties
of each sound. You will also gain practical skills in recording and measuring acoustic data in Praat (a program for
acoustic analysis and other phonetic work), transcribing data in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), and
producing both familiar and foreign sounds in isolation and in varying contexts. Ultimately, you will apply these skills
towards describing a language unknown to you, synthesizing speech, and analyzing research in articulatory, acoustic,
and perceptual phonetics.

Requirements and grading breakdown

Prerequisite: None

Textbooks: Ladefoged (2005). A Course in Phonetics, 5th (or 6th) ed. (req., on reserve)
Johnson (2012). Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics, 3rd ed. (req., on reserve, e-book available)

Homework (15%): Homework assignments will be distributed almost every week, and will often include
transcription of sound files to be downloaded from the course website.

Quizzes (15%): Occasional dictation-style transcription quizzes will be held during most lectures. Not all
quizzes will be collected, and the lowest of your collected quiz scores will be dropped.

Exercises (10%): Each student’s skills at accurately producing various speech sounds will be tested during
lecture. Full participation in such exercises is part of the course requirements.

Exams (40%): Two exams will be held during lecture. A third exam will test your production skills, and will
be scheduled individually for each student during the final exam period.

Project (20%): You will find a speaker of a language you do not know, and based on data you collect from
the speaker, you will write a paper describing the language’s phonetics.

Policies

Please note that I generally do not accept late work. I am willing to offer partial credit to students who have shown
sincere effort and have an extenuating excuse, although this will be the exception rather than the rule.

I have zero tolerance for plagiarism. Each student must abide by the Reed Honor Principle. While students are very
much encouraged to work with one another, each student’s submitted work must be their own.

If you have a documented disability and will need accommodations for this class, it is your responsibility to contact
Disability & Accessibility Resources at (503) 517-7921 or disability-services@reed.edu as soon as possible.
Class schedule

H: homework assignment due, R: reading due, P: project component due

Week Day Date In class Due before class

1 Tue 28 Jan English consonants and vowels R: LadefogedCP §1, 3


Thu 30 Jan Project intro: proposal R: LadefogedCP §2, 4
English phonology, transcription
2 Tue 4 Feb Nonpulmonic sounds R: LadefogedCP §6 pp. 133–143
Thu 6 Feb States of the glottis R: LadefogedCP §6 pp. 143–152
Demo: Amharic H1: Basic IPA, English sounds
3 Tue 11 Feb Project intro: long and short wordlists P1: Project proposal
Coronals and palatals R: LadefogedCP §7
Thu 13 Feb Dorsals and the throat H2: Airstreams, glottal states
Demo: Marathi
4 Tue 18 Feb Vowels, glides, nasalization R: LadefogedCP §9
Thu 20 Feb Tones and pitch accent R: LadefogedCP §10
Demo: Turkish H3: Coronals and dorsals
5 Tue 25 Feb Project intro: recording P2: Long and short wordlists
Labials and laterals
Thu 27 Feb Complex tones and register H4: Vocoids, labials, laterals, rhotics,
Demo: Wu and tones (Fri)
6 Tue 3 Mar Practice non-English transcription H5: All consonants
Thu 5 Mar EXAM I: Non-English phonetics
7 Tue 10 Mar Basic acoustics; segmentation R: Johnson §1
Thu 12 Mar NO CLASS: Test run of virtual class
8 Tue 17 Mar Source-filter theory [begin virtual class] R: Johnson §2
Thu 19 Mar
Break Tue 24 Mar NO CLASS: Spring Break
Thu 26 Mar
9 Tue 31 Mar Tube models; vowel acoustics R: Johnson §6
H6: Segmentation
Thu 2 Apr Project intro: final submission R: Johnson §7
Fricative consonant acoustics
10 Tue 7 Apr Stop consonant acoustics R: Johnson §8
P3: Recording (revised instructions)
Thu 9 Apr Approximant consonant acoustics R: Johnson §6.2 (reread)
Perturbation theory H7: Vowel acoustics
11 Tue 14 Apr Demo: Synthesis R: Johnson §9
Nasal consonant acoustics
Thu 16 Apr Nasalized vowel acoustics H8: Obstruent acoustics
12 Tue 21 Apr EXAM II: Acoustic phonetics
Thu 23 Apr Discussion: Perceptual effects R: Johnson §5
13 Tue 28 Apr Discussion: Tonogenesis R: Kingston 2011
Thu 30 Apr Discussion: Phonetics in phonology H9: Synthesis
Wrap up phonetics, practice production
Exam Mon 11 May Language project due P4: Final submission
Wed* 13 May* EXAM III: Production (individual)

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