Linguistics 410: Schedule
Autumn 2003 (Donegan)
Ling 410 Calendar
Week
1 Tu
Date
8/26
Topic
Admin. Info sheets. Website:
Text
Ch 1
http://english.heinle.com/ladefoged/ Click on:
‘Access these materials by visiting his site.’
1 Th
8/28
2 Tu
9/2
Intro: Describing articulations.
Vocal tract anatomy, the speech organs.
Phonetic terminology.
Handouts
 Syllabus
 Student info sheet
Ch 1
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Drawing mid-saggital diagrams.
English consonants: places of articulation,
manners of articulation.
Ch 1, 2
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Describing consonants: voicing, place,
laterality, velic position, manner. Consonant
Ch 1, 2
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Assignments
Project
JH anatomy diagram
Ladefoged 2000
midsaggital sections &
pitch tracks
English consonants on
practice IPA chart
Revised IPA chart (inside
front cover of text)
2 Th
9/4
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HW 1 assigned:
C terminology, vocal
tract shapes: L p16-21.
description & transcription drills.
3 Tu
3 Th
9/9
9/11
Vowel dimensions: height, frontness,
rounding. Vowel symbols. Monophthongs
and diphthongs.
Demo: ear training resources.
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Ch 1, 2 
Ch 1, 2
http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software
.asp?id=16
See also:
hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/Vowel
sandConsonants/ (click on Vowels and Consonants)
Vowel description & transcription drills.
4 Tu
9/16
Segments & suprasegmentals: length,
loudness, pitch.
Ch 2
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Vowel charts
Vowel handout I
Vowel transcription chart
See Ladefoged 2000 pitch
tracks
HW 1 due
HW 2 assigned:
transcription errors,
annotated midsaggital
sections. Coarticulat’n.
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Linguistics 410: Schedule
Week
4 Th
Date
9/18
5 Tu
9/23
Topic
Broad & narrow transcription. Phonemes
& allophones: complementary distribution,
free variation, contrast. Phonological
processes.
Consonant allophones in English.
Demo: waveform editing - stop allophony.
Autumn 2003 (Donegan)
Text
Handouts
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Assignments
Ch 2
Ch 3
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HW 2 due.
HW 3 assigned:
Project
writing rules, finding
examples of Engl. C
allophones
5 Th
9/25
6 Tu
9/30
6 Th
10/2
Rules for Engl. consonant allophones.
Features & classes of sounds. Reading &
writing phonological processes. Finding
examples.
Transcription quiz 1: Basics.
Vowel allophones in English. Dialect
differences.
Demo: California – Sydney diphthongs.
Rules for Engl. vowel allophones.
English vowels, stress & length.
Ch 3
Ch 4
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Features handout
Processes handout
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Project handout.
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V handout I (from 9/9)
Midterm review sheet
HW 3 due.
HW 4 assigned:
writing rules, finding
examples of Engl. V
allophones. Showing
syllable division.
7 Tu
7 Th
8 Tu
8 Th
10/7
10/9
10/14
10/16
Syllables and syllable division.
Suprasegmentals: Tone, intonation, stress.
Review and questions
Midterm Exam.
Ch 4
Ch 10
Ch 10
Ch 14, 10
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Syllable handout
Stress handout
HW 4 due.
Handouts: features,
processes, syll, stress
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Linguistics 410: Schedule
9 Tu
10/21
Air stream mechanisms:
Autumn 2003 (Donegan)
Ch 6
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IPA consonant charts for
practice
Ch 6
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VOT handout
Egressive & ingressive.
Pulmonic, glottalic, velaric.
Articulatory sequences.
9 Th
10/23
10 Tu
10 Th
11 Tu
11 Th
10/28
10/30
11/4
11/6
12 Tu
12 Th
13 Tu
11/11
11/13
11/18
13 Th
11/20
14 Tu
14 Th
15 Tu
11/25
11/27
12/2
Phonation types, relative timing of
articulators, VOT.
Production & transcription practice.
Places and manners of articulation.
Production & transcription practice.
Acoustic phonetics intro: waveforms,
pitchtracks, spectrograms.
Thanksgiving holiday
Production & transcription practice.
Ch 6
Ch 7
Ch 7
Ch 8
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Ch 8
Ch 9
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Ch 9
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15 Th
12/4
16 Tu
12/9
16 Th
F Tu
F Th
12/11
12/16
12/18
Production & transcription practice.
Transcription Quiz 2: focus – consonants
Transcription Quiz 3: focus – vowels
Review.
Course evaluation.
Final exam (1): 9:45 – 11:45
Final exam (2): 7:30 – 9:30
HW 5 assigned: L
Acquire.
p132-5
Veterans’ Day holiday
Acoustic correlates of place and manner.
Vowels and formants. Non-English
vowels.
Semivowels, secondary articulations.
Sonority and color.
Production and transcription practice.
Decide,
commit.
Listen.
Acoustics handout
pp)
(9
Begin to
transcribe.
V handout II
Analyze.
Final exam review
sheet.
Production exam signup sheet.
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Write up.
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Production exams
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Production exams
Hand in.
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