Instructor: Scott Nelson
Course Meeting Time: T/Th 9:30am–12:55pm
Course Zoom link: https://stonybrook.zoom.us/j/4091340647
Office Hours: By appointment (send me an e-mail)
Class Log
08/17/2023
- We continued project presentations
- We reviewed the material learned in the course
- Final project reports are due Friday (8/18) by 5:00 pm
08/15/2023
- We went over these
slides which discuss various experimental methods for measuring
articulatory data.
- We started project presentations
08/10/2023
- We talked more about vowel normalization from Chapter 9 in the Course Notes. We also discussed Chapter
10 which includes the difference between auditory/acoustic theories of
speech perception and gestural theories of speech perception and how
they might relate to perceptual confusion and the production of rhotics
in English.
- We did one final Spectrogram analysis on this sound file.
- We worked on Lab 8 in the Course
Notes. Here are the experiment
files. You must run the experiment on yourself and one other person so
that you can send me the data by 9:30 am this Sunday (8/13). I will send
out the results and more info so you can write up the lab report which
is due next Thursday (8/19) by the start of class.
08/08/2023
We went over Chapter 9 on speech perception with a focus on
categorical perception, auditory illusions, and vowel normalization in
the Course Notes We talked about
these slides which will be
converted to course notes shortly.- We discussed this VOT
manipulation script and also went over how to make and run
experiments in Praat.
- We worked on Lab 7 in the Course
Notes. Here are the experiment
files. You must run the experiment on yourself and one other person so
that you can send me the data by 9:30 am this Friday (8/11). I will send
out the results and more info so you can write up the lab report which
is due next Thursday (8/17) by the start of class.
08/03/2023
- We went over Chapter 8 on acoustic cues for place of articulation in
the Course Notes
- We discussed spectral measurements in Praat and analyzed this sound file
- We worked on Lab 6 in the Course
Notes. It is due next Thursday (8/10) by the start of class.
- Reminder: you must submit a project proposal to me
by tomorrow at 5pm.
08/01/2023
- We went over Chapter 7 on acoustic cues for voicing in the Course Notes
- We discussed measuring VOT in Praat and analyzed this sound file
- We worked on Lab 5 in the Course
Notes. It is due next Tuesday (8/8) by the start of class.
- Reminder: you must submit a project proposal to me
by this Friday, August 4.
07/27/2023
- Today is the halfway mark of the course. We reviewed all of the new
material up to this point and very briefly discussed the
acoustic properties of stress in the Course Notes
- We discussed measuring duration and intensity in Praat and analyzed
this sound file.
- We worked on Lab 4 in the Course
Notes. It is due next Thursday (8/3) by the start of class.
- Reminder: you must submit a project proposal to me
by next Friday, August 4.
07/25/2023
- We went over Chapter 5 on the Acoustic Theory of Speech Production
in the Course Notes
- We discussed different ways of measuring formants in Praat and
analyzed this sound file.
- We worked on Lab 3 in the Course
Notes. It is due next Tuesday (8/1) by the start of class.
- To make your vowel plot for part 1, use this page. It requires your data to be in
csv format. An example is here.
- In excel/numbers/google sheets you can make a spreadsheet with three
columns labeles
VOWEL, F1, and
F2. The vowel column should contain the vowel label, the F1
column should contain the mean F1 for each vowel, and the F2 column
should contain the mean F2 for each vowel. You can then either save or
export that spreadsheet as a csv. Once you do that, you can upload it to
the page above and it will create a vowel plot for you. Right click and
save the figure and you’re done. You can now add it to your lab
report.
07/20/2023
- We went over Chapter 4 on Lexical Tone + Contrast in the Course Notes
- We discussed automatic analysis and how to draw pictures in Praat
and analyzed this sound
file. Here is the
script we wrote together that automatically measures vowel
duration.
- We worked on Lab 2 in the Course
Notes. Download the sound files here. It is due next Thursday (7/27) by the
start of class
07/18/2023
- We went over Chapter 3 on f0 in the Course Notes
- We discussed how to measure f0 in Praat and analyzed this sound file
- We worked on Lab 1 in the Course
Notes. It is due next Tuesday (7/25) by the start of class
07/11/2023 & 07/13/2023
- Week 1 is online & asynchronous because I am out of town
- I will be on Zoom from 12-1pm on 7/11 and 7/13 for anyone who would
like to meet with me.
- Your tasks for week 1:
- Come to one of the Zoom meetings to introduce yourself. If you are
unable, please send me an email introducing yourself instead.
- Read the syllabus
- Join the course
slack channel
- Sign up for a presentation slot here
- Watch the intro to the course video
- Watch the review of articulatory phonetics video
- Watch the review of acoustic phonetics video
- Watch the intro to Praat video
- Review Chapters 1 & 2 and Appendix A of the course notes
- Complete and submit Lab 0; download files here