HESP 403: Introduction to Phonetic Science

(a backup site for when ELMS is down - these files are for older versions of the class and may be different from the current materials)

Instructor: Matthew Winn (mwinn (at ) hesp.umd _dot_ edu)

Instructor's website (click here)

Office hours: Mondays 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Office: 0111 Lefrak Hall

Class meetings: Thursdays 5:00pm - 7:30 pm
at ART-SOC 1213

Teaching Assistants:
TA Office: 1211 Lefrak Hall
Office phone: 301-405-4276

 

Textbook:
Clinical Phonetics by L. Shriberg

Note: class slides re periodically updated; check during the week of class

Files for Class #1: Introduction, basic linguistics terms

Files for Class #2: IPA, Anatomy of Speech

Class #3: Vowels

Class #4: Consonants

Transcription practice exercises

Class #5: Connected Speech

Class #6: Connected speech and transcription issues

Mid-term exam: Thursday, March 8

Class #7: Suprasegmentals and Diacritics

Class #8: Narrow transcription, dialects and second language phonetics

Class #9: Clinical Phonetics

Class #10: Clinical Phonetics, transcription

Click here to read more about the vowel formant synthesizer assignment

Class #11: Acoustic Phonetics

Class #12: Acoustic Phonetics, speech perception

Class #13: A review of important concepts in phonetics, and a preview of the final exam

FINAL EXAM TIME: ASY 1213 Thu, May 17 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Final exam study guide

Practice exercises for clinical transcription (answers here)

Final Exam Review Session: Saturday, May 12, 12:00 noon, room TBA