24.910 | Spring 2007 | Undergraduate

Topics in Linguistic Theory: Laboratory Phonology

Lecture Notes

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1

Introduction

Laboratory phonology

(PDF - 2.7 MB)

Audio samples (ZIP) (The ZIP file contains 4 .wav files)

2

Basic audition

Digital signal processing

(PDF)

American vowels (WAV)

Consonants (AIFF)

3

Source-filter theory

Acoustics of vowels

(PDF - 1.3 MB)
4 Adaptive dispersion (PDF)
5

Spectral analysis

Licensing by cue

(PDF)
6 Licensing by cue (cont.) (PDF)
7 Intonation

(PDF)

Audio samples (ZIP) (The ZIP file contains 6 .wav files)

8 The meaning of intonation

(PDF - 1.9 MB)

Audio samples (ZIP)* (The ZIP file contains 8 .wav files)

9

Basic statistics

Effects of the lexicon and context on speech perception

(PDF 1)

(PDF 2)

10 Effects of the lexicon and context on speech perception (cont.) (PDF)
11 Phonetics and phonology of accent variation

(PDF - 1.1 MB)

Audio samples (ZIP) (The ZIP file contains 14 .wav files)

12 Student presentations  

* Two of the audio files for Lecture 8 (8_marmelade2.wav and 8_marmelade5.wav) are presented courtesy of the Ohio State University Research Foundation and the OSU ToBI Research Group. Used with permission.

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