Lecture Materials:
Abstract:
This lecture will cover the basic acoustic properties of the
speech sounds of American English. Students will learn the production
mechanisms, and acoustic properties of each of the major classes of speech
sounds, and will learn how these properties are manifested on
spectrograms. The lecture will include many examples of labelled and
unlabelled spectrograms, and will give attendees plenty of practice
applying their acoustic phonetic knowledge to spectrographic analysis. By
the end of the lecture and associated laboratory, students should be able
to look at a spectrogram of an utterance, and perform at least a broad
phonetic transcription, or identify where gross mistakes occur in an
existing transcription.