Examination hints

For each of the weekly class topics there will be at least one question. This includes:

1. Basic concepts: phonetics and phonology, phonetic domains.
2. Basic principles of speech file editing and annotation (without use of the softwre itself).
3. Structure and content of the IPA chart, including phonetic symbols and transcription.
4. Articulatory phonetics: speech organs, vocal tract, airstream mechanisms, phonation, consonant, vowel, manner of articulation, place of articulation.
5. Acoustic phonetics: sine wave (sinusoid), time domain, frequency domain, amplitude, harmonic, fundamental frequency, pitch, formant, resonance, noise, burst, waveform, oscillogramme, spectrum, spectrogramme.
6. Perceptual phonetics: eardrum, ossicle, cochlea, bandwidth, perceived loudness, threshold of intensity, intelligibility, categorical perception, models of speech perception.
7. Phonology: phonemes, allphones (with special reference to English and German).
8. Distinctive features: typical distinctive features, the difference between phonetic features in the three phonetic domains, and phonological distinctive features.
9. Phonological rules: typical phonological rules of English and German.
10. Prosody: intonation, accent, tone; fundamental frequency; duration; intensity, rhythm.