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HSS302: Special Lectures on Linguistics

Phonetics [: ]
Autumn Semester 2014
Class Time
Location

Monday and Wednesday, 10:30 am -12:00 pm

N4 (), Room 1114

Instructor
Office
Email
Office Hours

Dahee Kim
N4, Room 1210 ()
daheekim0726@gmail.com
Monday and Wednesday, 9-10am

Target Student Population

Undergraduate and graduate students interested in how speech sounds are produced, acoustically
manifested, and perceived by humans and machines. There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Description
This is an introductory course of linguistic phonetics. The broad topics that we will address
during the semester will include, but not limited to the following ones: how speech sounds are
produced and perceived by humans and machines, what acoustic properties human speech
sounds display, how to analyze speech sounds in a scientifically rigorous way.

Course Objectives
Through this course, students are expected to develop a better understanding of:
i)
articulatory phonetics: how speech sounds are made by human vocal organs
ii) acoustic phonetics: the physical properties of speech sounds
iii) auditory phonetics: how speech sounds are heard by human listeners
iv) how to model human speech production and perception

Textbook
Required:
Reetz, H., and Jongman, A. (2009). Phonetics: Transcription, Production,
Acoustics and Perception. Wiley-Blackwell.
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This is an introductory book on phonetics. Most readings will be assigned

from this book. Lectures, homework assignments and exams will be based
on the assumption that we have read the chapter before the class, so make
sure you do the readings, at least once, before the class.

Please ask, if you have questions. Questions will help confirm your
understanding, help your classmates, and help me prepare for classes,
quizzes and exams.

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Supplementary materials:
Though not mandatory, the following books may further your understanding of the subject
matter. Note that Kaist library has the following books.

Johnson, K. (2003/2011). Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. Second or third edition.

Blackwell Publisher.
Ladefoged, P., and Johnson, K. (2011). A Course in Phonetics. Sixth edition. Thomson
Wadsworth.

Course Components

Grading Scale

Total: 100 %

Homework Assignments

Reading Quizzes

Mid-term Exam

Final Project

Class Participation

Experiment

96-100%
95-92%
89-91%
87-89%
83-86%
80-82%

20%
10%
30%
30%
5%
5%

A+
A0
AB+
B0
B-

77-79%
73-76%
70-72%
67-69%
63-66%
60-62%
0-59%

C+
C0
CD+
D0
DF

Schedule
The schedule is tentative and subject to change with sufficient notice. The most recent version
will always be available on the course webpage. You are responsible to check the course
webpage regularly. Email reminders will be sent out occasionally as well.

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Course Calendar
Week

Topics

Readings

Overview: Phonetics,
the science of human speech sounds

Chapter 1

Articulatory Phonetics (1):

consonants

Chapter 2

Articulatory Phonetics (2):

vowels

Chapter 2

Phonetic Transcription:
sounds and spelling

Chapter 3

Classifying sounds:
from symbols to articulation

Chapter 4

Physiological basis of speech

production

Chapter 5

Airstream mechanism
and phonation types

Chapter 6

Mid-term Review:
Transcription and Articulation

Basic acoustics

Chapter 7
(skim)

10

Acoustic phonetics (1):

vowels

Chapter 9

11

Acoustic phonetics (2):

consonants

Chapter 10

12

Segments and supra-segments

Chapter 11

13

Speech Perception

Chapter 13

14

Student Project Presentations 1

15

Student Project Presentations 2

16

Final Project Due