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Course overview (PDF)

a. Distinctive features; phonological evidence and evidence from production, acoustics and perception; articulator-free features and articular-bound features

b. Basics of acoustics of speech production: acoustic sources from airflow, filtering of sources by the vocal tract

c. Some basic anatomy: breathing, lungs, larynx, oral tract, nasal cavities

d. Basics of hearing; hearing for speech

e. Air flow and its control in speech production

f. Introduction to quantal theory, enhancement

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Features for vowels and sonorant consonants

Lecture 2 (PDF - 1.3 MB)

Lecture 3 (PDF 1) (PDF 2) (PDF 3)

a. Vowel systems, relation between acoustics and articulation; vowel nasalization, glottal source for vowels

b. Waveform displays, spectrum displays, spectrograms

c. Sonorant consonants; glides, liquids, nasals

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DS

Why features

a. Learning phonology with distinctive features (PDF - 1.3 MB)

b. Inferring features

c. Natural classes (PDF - 1.0 MB)

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DS

Feature values in lexical entries (PDF)

a. Experimental evidence for under specification

b. Evidence for under specification in lexical access vs. phonological evidence

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DS

Features vs. contrasts

Phonological relevance of non-contrastive features: release, syllabicity, timing

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EF, DS

Features vs. contrasts (cont.)

EF notes (PDF)

DS notes (PDF)

a. Syllable structure

b. Contrast as an alternative theory of features

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EF

Lexical neighborhood, frequency, predictability, effects on production and perception

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EF, DS

Theories of speech perception

a. Objects of speech perception

b. Models of speech perception - relation to lexical access, the role of 'intermediate' representations, Nearey's typology of intermediate representations

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DG

Context effects

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DG

Normalization

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DG

Feature-cue integration and assimilation (PDF)

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Student presentations