Introduction, planning

Calendar

1 Oct 19 Introduction, planning

2 Oct 26 Speech signals and symbols - background

3 Nov 2 Speech editing - practical

4 Nov 9 Making a `speaking dictionary'

5 Nov 16 Time and frequency

6 Nov 23 Intonation

7 Nov 30 Accent

8 Dec 7 Syllables

9 Dec 14 Vowel phonemes and allophones

10 Dec 21 Consonant phonemes and allophones

11 Jan 4 The spectrum

12 Jan 11 Consonant spectrum characteristics

13 Jan 18 Vowel spectrum characteristics

14 Jan 25 Project: multimedia dictionary

15 Feb 1 Project: multimedia dictionary

16 Feb 8 Project: multimedia dictionary

17 Feb 15 Discussion of project results

Term papers

Term papers will be discussed in November, when you have had time to plan your courses, and have some knowledge of what the course is about.

The basic idea with the term paper is

1. to produce a document (a multimedia dictionary) in the term project,
2. to describe this project in your term paper from a scientific linguistic point of view.

Use of the computers

1. Login:
   User: handle1 - handle20
   Passwort: howto
2. ...
3. Logout: Start - Beenden -

Preparation for next week

1. search for definitions and descriptions of the following terms on the web:
   • Vowel
   • Consonant
   • Syllable
   • Intonation
   • Accent
   • Phonetics
   • Phonology
   • Multimedia
2. Find a short (less than 1 minute) sound file (WAV format) with clear, noise-free English speech (any variety - standard, a dialect, male, female, child, ...) on the web, put it on a diskette and bring it with you. We will use it in the weeks to come.
3. You will find references to previous phonetics classes informative, but some of them will not be directly relevant, and others may be a little too technical for this class.
4. Those of you who are really serious about learning about all aspects of spoken language, applications in all kinds of areas from clinical diagnosis and therapy to dictation software, take a look at the `speech research' site.

Documentation of definitions found on the web

1. Start a MS Word document, using styles (Formatvorlagen) for Title, Header1, etc.
2. The title should be "Definitions (Grundkurs Ia, 26.10.2000, Desk n)"
3. The headers should be the terms you are defining.
4. Documentation of individual references should contain the following information:
   1. Document title:
   2. Address (URL):
   3. Date found:
   4. Identity (author, institution):
   5. Summary:
   6. Sample:

Transferring your documents to another computer

The computers in this room cannot be accessed from the outside, so different techniques need to be used:

• FTP (File Transfer Protocol) to your ISP (Internet Service Provider), e.g. the university computer centre (HRZ)
• Email attachment via a web email address (if you have one)
• Diskette (not practicable with 70 people in the class)

I would like volunteers to test the first two methods!