230258 Gibbon: Grundkurs Ib: How to Handle Speech: Linguistic Foundations of Phonetics and Phonology (Thursday 10-12, C0-273)

Class notes.

Spoken language is the foundation of all human communication, and for a student of language it is essential to understand all aspects of spoken language. The goal of this course is to provide an introduction to the modern scientific methods used in analysing the physical aspects of spoken language, i.e. speech itself, including the following:

• Practical analysis of speech signals using freely available sound editing software.
• Acoustic phonetics of English, German and maybe other languages.
• Design and performance of simple experiments on speech signals, speech perception and speech production.
• Theories of speech production and perception.
• The relation between phonetics and phonology.
• Modern theories of phonology: finite state phonology, autosegmental phonology, and optimality theory.

The class is designed for students of English; students of Linguistics and Computer Science and those interested in speech in multimedia contexts are welcome to take part. Qualifications will be by term paper based on a practical task involving phonological and phonetic description of samples of English dialogue.

A CD-ROM with practical materials for the course will be made available at the beginning of term; reading lists and further materials will be available on our website:

http://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/Classes/

and in notices on C6.