LING 521
Corpus Phonetics (Phonetics II)
Spring 2008
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LING 521 |
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INTRODUCTION
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| This is a project course. The purpose is to introduce skills and tools related to doing phonetics research using large speech corpora. | |||
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LOGISTICS
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| Instructors |
Jiahong Yuan jiahong@babel.ling.upenn.edu |
| Time and Location |
Lectures: Wednesdays, 1:00-3:00pm, IRCS 403 |
| Textbooks |
Learning Python, 2nd ed., 2003, David Ascher and Mark Lutz, O'Reilly. (recommended) |
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| Course webpage | http://ling.upenn.edu/courses/ling521/ |
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SYLLABUS
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| Week | Topics | Readings | Notes |
| Week 1 (1/16) | Overview of the course and introduction.
No lab. | THERE'S NO DATA LIKE MORE DATA (but when will enough be enough?), R.K. Moore, WISP, 2001. (optional) | |
| Week 2 (1/23) | Python programming
Lab 1: Using Python | Python Tutorial, Ch. 1-4
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| Week 3 (1/30) | Python programming
Lab 2: Speaking rate | Python Tutorial, Ch. 5-7
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| Week4 (2/6) | Praat scripting
Lab 2: Speaking rate | Praat scripting tutorial, Ch. 1-6
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| Week 5 (2/13) | Introductory statistics I
Lab 3: Annotation | Introductory Statistics with R, Ch. 2, 3
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| Week 6 (2/20) | Introductory statistics II
Lab 3: Annotation | Introductory Statistics with R, Ch. 4, 6.1
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| Week 7 (2/27) | Introductory statistics III
Lab 3: Annotation | Introductory Statistics with R, Ch. 5, 6.3. 9, 10.7
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| Week 8 (3/5) | No class. | ||
| Week 9 (3/12) | Spring break. | ||
| Week 10 (3/19) | Introductory statistics IV
Lab 4: F0 declination | Introductory Statistics with R, Ch. 7, 11
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| Week 11 (3/26) | Vowel normalization
Lab 4: F0 declination | 1. Adank, Patti, Smits, Roel, and van Hout, Roeland. 2004. A comparison of vowel normalization procedures for language variation research. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 116:3099-3107. 2. Halberstam, Benjamin, and Lawrence J. Raphael. 2004. Vowel normalization: the role of fundamental frequency and upper formants. Journal of Phonetics 32:423-34. 3. Johnson, Keith. 2006. Resonance in an exemplar-based lexicon: The emergence of social identity and phonology. Journal of Phonetics 34:485-499. | The Vowel Normalization and Plotting Suite |
| Week 12 (4/2) | Segment duration
Final project proposal | 1. Klatt, Dennis H. 1976. Linguistic uses of segmental duration of English: acoustic and perceptual evidence. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 59: 1208-1221. 2. Pols, L., Wang, X., and ten Bosch, L. 1996. Modelling of Phone Duration (Using the TIMIT database) and Its Potential Benefit for ASR. Speech Communication, 19: 161-176. 3. Rosen, Kristin M. 2005. Analysis of speech segment duration with the lognormal distribution: A basis for unification and comparison. Journal of Phonetics, 33: 411-426. | |
| Week 13 (4/9) | Prosody
Final project | 1. Chu M., Zhao Y., and Chang E. 2006. Modeling stylized invariance and local variability of prosody in text-to-speech synthesis. Speech Communication, 48: 716-726. 2. Grabe E., Kochanski G., and Coleman J. 2007. Connecting Intonation Labels to Mathematical Descriptions of Fundamental Frequency. Language and speech, 50: 281-310. 3. Patel R. and Grigos. M. I. 2006. Acoustic characterization of the question-statement contrast in 4, 7 and 11 year-old children. Speech Communication, 48: 1308-1318. | Final project proposal due. |
| Week 14 (4/16) | Speech variation: New methodologies
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| Week 15 (4/23) | New techniques for phonetics research
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