Test (Written: Thursday 18 July 1800h, Computer Room C01-273; Oral: Thursday 18 and Friday 19 July 2002, Phonetics lab)

Preparation for the examinations

The materials you have prepared during the term will be collected on CD-ROM at the end of the last but one class (11th July 2002).

In order for us to be able do this, please copy your files, with the glossary and any other materials you need, into the following folder:

Dateitransfer/Gibbon/DeskN/

where N is the number of your desk, i.e. Desk1 ... Desk20. The folders have already been prepared.

Types of qualification

Please contact me if anything remains unclear:

1. "Teilnahmeschein": Project presentation, with glossary, during the last meeting of term (not graded).
2. Oral exam: On the project with glossary, to be completed on the last Friday of term (graded), in C01-273 or the phonetics lab (C6-139), date to be fixed. The 30 minute examination includes the following:
   1. Transcription writing (transcription of a short audio sample)
   2. Transcription reading (reading aloud of a short transcription)
   3. Questions on your Glossary (see below); the glossary definitions can contain graphics and audio illustrations. Typically the questions will be concerned with clarifying your definitions and explaining details. The examiner will pick the category for discussion, and you will pick two of the terms to discuss.
3. "Klausur": Project work, additionally the glossary. The Klausur requires production of a written document on the computer with the following information:
   1. Transcription and annotation of a short audio fragment using Praat; the resulting transcription should be copied into your answer document.
   2. Production of a document answering questions based on selected items from the glossary (see below). You can copy glossary definitions, but this is not sufficient: you will also need to discuss them in your answers to the questions. The glossary definitions can contain graphics and audio illustrations which can be copied into your document; you can also incorporate further web documents into your document. Typically the questions will require you to show how two definitions within each of the selected categories are related. The examiner will pick the categories, and you will pick two terms within each category to discuss.
4. "Leistungsnachweis"/"kleiner Schein": Minor extensions to project work, to be handed in during the week after classes finish; the following glossary must be included (graded).
5. "Schriftliche Hausarbeit": individual preparation and supervision (graded).

Glossary of terms

Select at least two items from each category and include them in your glossary - remember that you need to define the category, too!

1. Phonology, phonetics
2. Articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, auditory phonetics
3. Articulation, speech organs, vocal tract, airstream mechanisms, phonation, consonant, vowel, manner of articulation
4. Place of articulation, labial, dental, alveolar, palatal, velar, pharyngeal
5. Plosive, fricative, affricate, liquid, glide, diphthong, syllable
6. Phonology, phonemics: Phoneme, allophone, distribution, morphophoneme, neutralisation
7. Generative phonology: phonological rule, rule order, markedness
8. Acoustic phonetics: sine wave (sinusoid), harmonic, fundamental frequency, pitch, formant, resonance, noise, burst, waveform, oscillogram, spectrum, spectrogram
9. Annotation: transcription, segmentation, labelling, interval tier
10. Perception: eardrum, ossicle, cochlea, bandwidth, perceived loudness, threshold of intensity, intelligibility, categorial perception
11. Prosody: frequency, duration, timing, intonation, tone, accent, stress, rhythm
12. Features: distinctive feature, articulatory feature, acoustic feature, phonetic correlate, feature geometry
13. History of Phonology: Phonemics, Prague school, non-linear phonology (autosegmental phonology, metrical phonology), lexical phonology, lexical phonology
14. Phonetic symbols: phonetic transcription, phonemic transcription (select from: this, that, runner, work, talk).