LING521

Phonetics II

  Week Links
1. 1/18/2016 Corpus Phonetics Example #1:
        "Consonant effects on f0 of following vowels";
        "Consonant effects on f0 are multiplicative";
        "Consonant effects on f0 in Chinese"

Background Readings:
        The phonetics of neurodegenerative diseases

Exercise #1: Simple forced alignment in English
2. 1/25/2016

Basic Unix Command-line Tools

Background reading:
     Neville Ryant et al.,
             "Automating phonetic measurements: The case of voice onset time",
             ICA 2013
     Jiahong Yuan et al.,
             "Automatic Phonetic Segmentation using Boundary Models",
             InterSpeech 2013

Exercise #2: Checking allophonic variation in voiceless stops

3. 2/1/2016

Background reading:
Naomi Nevler, "Dysfluency and Dysprosody in FrontoTemporal Degeneration"
"Political sound and silence", LLOG 2/8/2016

Exercise #3: Distribution of speech and silence durations (1)

4. 2/8/2016

Perl Programming

Distribution of speech and silence durations (2)
Exercise #4: Distribution of speech and silence durations (3)

5. 2/21/2016 Exercise #5: Distribution of speech and silence durations (4)
6. 2/28/2016

Background reading:
"Modeling F0 time-sequences" [ling525]
"Nationality, gender, and pitch"
"Political voices"
"Political pitch ranges"

Exercise #6: Tracking F0 and examining simple f0 statistics

7. 3/14/2016

Background reading:
"Quantitative modeling of intonational variation"
"F0 Declination in English and Mandarin Broadcast News Speech"
"Highly Accurate Mandarin Tone Classification In The Absence of Pitch Information"
"Tone Without Pitch"

Stage 1 of term project: Due 3/21/2016

8. 3/21/2016

Background reading:
"Intonational invariance under changes in pitch range and length"

Overall F0 trends at syllable and phrase scales

9. 3/28/2016  
10. 3/4/2016 Frames and Times
Term Project Progress Report, due 4/11/2016
11. 3/11/2016 Exercise #7: Analysis of external parameter files
12. 3/18/2016  
13. 3/25/2016 Putting it Together (1)