Ling 580
Spring 2013
T Th 11-12:20 GFS 217
Louis Goldstein
louisgol@usc.edu
This document was last revised on May 1, 2013.
Assignments
Lecture Materials
- The Gestural Structure of Speech
- Organization of consonant and vowel gestures
- Gestural Scores
- Gestures and Phonetic Transcription
- Introduction to Acoustics
- Complex and Simple Waves
- Initiation
- Voicing
- Laryngeal Gestures and States of the Glottis
- Larynx Film Festival
- Oral Constrictions: constriction degree
- Oral Constrictions: Constriction location and orientation
- Allophonic Variation
- Tube demonstration from the Exploratorium in San Francisco
- Source-filter Theory
- Electroglottograph demo
- Formant Transitions and the perception of consonants
- Sine Wave Synthesis
- Vowels
- Notes on Quantal Theory
- Prosody
- Notes on Consonant Gestures
- Tone and Intonation
- Gestures and Syllables
- Notes on Syllabification
- Stress and Rhythm
- Notes on rhythm
Answers to Exercises
- Articulatory Gestures
- Gestures in Piraha and Hawaiian
- Segmenting Waveforms (right-click to download)
- Gestural Timing
- Larynx Exercise
- Spectrograms
Listening
- Outer Yuccan
- American and British English
- Quechua and Thai
- Symbol Description (Ladefoged, Chap 7, A-D)
Instructions for Laboratory Exercises
Listening Quizzes