Ling 205 Fall
2006 T.M. Nearey
Syllabus
- < on ÔSyllabusÕ for pdf version
Final Exam
Time: Monday December 11, 1400-1700 (2-5 pm)
Place: Tory Lecture B-2
Extra office hours: Thursday Dec. 7 and Friday
Dec 8
1300:1630 4-13 Assiniboia Hall
Some
notes notes on the final exam
Calculator
and ruler ok (though not necessary) for final exam (I will have an extra
calculator and ruler.
The structure
of this yearÕs final will be similar to that of last yearÕs. Since it still
seems not to have made it to the exam registry, please find a copy here:
Notes:
There were a couple of
typos and other clarifications on this exam for items number 1 to 70. (Thanks
to a student for pointing these
out.)
I have fixed
actual typos in the latest version on the web. If you got your copy before
4:30 PM on Friday, Dec 8, then
they have has not been corrected.)
Number 2. for ÔaffricativeÕ use ÔaffricateÕ
(Affricative is an old word for affricate. ItÕs here by a typo).
Number 20. The following description is more
complete Ôraised voiceless labial velar fricative (or approx.)Õ
Number 21. ÔAlveopalatalÕ can also be called
Ôalveolo-palatalÕ; (I prefer the first, shorter term. IPA likes the second).
**Number 25 and
number 28. The descriptions should be reversed. So keeping the symbols the
same, number 25 [ħ] is a voiceless pharyngeal fricative, and number 28 [ ʕ ] is voiced pharyngeal fricative.
You might also
note how Rogers advises you draw the Ôcurly vÕ , i.e. the voiced labiodental
approximate [ʋ] on p 324 and 325. He suggests a little
loop on the upper right arm (see next to last line, near middle of Figure C.8
on p 325). I will also accept a Ôcursive vÕ similar to one from the old ÒPalmer
methodÓ. HereÕs one I cut out from
this web page:
http://graciousliving.typepad.com/the_write_event/copybook/index.html.
(This picture
has a little bit of the capital V in the upper left corner that should be ignored. ) The key thing is that that the symbol should look sort of
like a ÔvÕ but different (less angular, more ÔcurvyÕ) than an ordinary [v] and
also different from symbols like [ʊ u r]. (The last, ÔrÕ , is mainly relevant mainly
for the ÔPalmer method cursive vÕ drawn above.)
The following
have not been fixed as I am unable to get the corrections done in Acrobat.
Question 4.14. Delete the schwa [ ] from answer (e).
Question
4.15. Delete the stray
syllabic marker from answer (d).
Note that the nasalization mark over the [w] is not
incorrect for this word.
It is often not marked even in
narrow transcription, but there is little doubt that the glide is actually
nasalized in this word.
Very tentative guide to performance (rough grade) so far
Assignment and Quiz mark guide
Assignment
Information: click here <-
NOTE:
Assignments
1 with answer key and Assignment 2 are now posted
Assignment 4 is now posted
ASSIGNMENT 5 is posted (Due
TUESDAY NOV 28)
Note: Timing marks on both
spectrograms: Large tick marks are .01 s =100 ms apart
Small tick marks are .005 s = 50
ms from nearest largest tick.
You might also check table 8.1 p
153 and tabl3 8.2 p 154 in Rogers for approximate vowel formant frequencies (use the adult male values). Also
check out the IPA Vowel slides under Week 8 below for diphthongization ( or
Òvowel inherent spectral changeÓ, VISC) info that may help.
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NEWS:
I have suffered a nasty leg injury.
For more info see the item labeled News on my leg injury:
On my main web page (http://www.ualberta.ca/~tnearey)
IÕm sorry but due mobility issues
that have not been resolved, I will probably not be able to make it to class
until Nov 2 at the earliest. (TheyÕre still building the porch lift).
--T Nearey
GENERAL INFORMATION:
Office Hours:
My usual office (4-13
AH) hours are 1430 to 1530 on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
However, on 21 September and 9 November, I have committee meetings that start
at 1500. I will move office hours those two Thursdays to 1400:1450
TA Office Hours:
Jill
Bouchard-Cross will have office hours at 12:30-13:30 on Wednesdays in 4-25
Assiniboia Hall
LATEST
See the
revised schedule link near the top of this web page.
Week 13 A
quick overview of English dialects (Rogers Chapter 6 – just for fun)
Some dialect material from the web
Quiz 5. NEW 21
November 2006
This quiz
will cover the material in quiz 5 plus ALL the symbols in the main IPA
consonant table on p 336 of Rogers. In addition there will be one acoustic
phonetics question similar to one of the exercises in assignment 4.
Quiz 4.
NOTES
(revised 13 November 2006)
The quiz will
consist entirely of symbol identification. There will be 20 questions There
will be two columns, one with a symbol and one with a description. You will
fill in whatever is blank.
Vowels:
You do NOT have to know ALL the IPA vowel symbols, contrary to what
I said in class. Instead, you need only to learn the Master Vowel List on this
page: (This will be true for the final as well.) For Quiz4 , but not for the
final, I will avoid
vowel symbols that have slightly different descriptions in IPA, namely the
vowels /¾, a, ʌ,ə, ɜ
/.
Master vowel chart <== Click here.
Correction
Note: the vowel [ɔ] was incorrectly described as a Ôlower
mid central rounded vowelÕ
on a prior handout. That was a typo. It is actually a Ôlower mid back rounded vowel.Õ Thanks to a student for pointing this out.
It has now been corrected on the pdf handout (PhonemesOfWCE.pdf)
Consonants:
See the following link for summary of
consonant information you need to know and
a short Sample
Quiz. Consonant Info and
Sample Quiz 4
Week 12 Notes
(Added 21 November 2006)
Suprasegmentals (small pdf) (Large pdf)
Week 10 and
11 Notes (Revised 21 November 2006)
Place of articulation
(stops and fricatives—small pdf) (Large pdf)
More places and manners
(small pdf) (Large pdf)
Week 9 Notes
Airstream Mechanisms notes
(small)
Airstream mechanisms –click here
Week 8 Notes
IPA
Vowels (mostly)
Basic
acoustics Part 3
QUIZ
3 will be held tomorrow (October 31) as announced in class.
Week 7 Notes
Basic
acoustics part 2:
Week 6
Notes
Acoustic Phonetics part 1
Notes: Acoustic Phonetics (large pdf)
Acoustic Phonetics Part 1 (small
pdf)
Additional
material:
Summary vowel chart for broad
transcription of English
Also : Check out the acoustics animations near the
bottom of Michael KiefteÕs web page http://myweb.dal.ca/mkiefte/
Quiz1
Answer Key
Notes
on Quiz 2. Key reference
notes (previously handed out) are:
CONSONANTS AND VOWELS PhonemesOfWCE.pdf
and the consonant section of
Note October
3 lecture will be allophones of English vowels in Week 4 notes section
Week 4 Notes
(Note: lecture
on 26 September starts with material on consonants started in week 3)
Summary of Allophones in WCE (handout)
Lecture notes:
Allophones of English Vowels (large pdf)
(Allophones of English vowels small
pdf)
NOTE ALSO
Correction to slide 37 (ÒQuickÓ)
of Phonemes and Allophones of English Consonants in Week 3 notes
PREVIOUS
Week 3 Notes
Phonemes
and Allophones of English Consonants
(We will start Tuesday with vowels from
week 2 notes. The material on consonant allophones in the following links will
take us into week 4.)
Phonemes and Allophones of English Consonants (small pdf).
PhonemesAndAllophonesEngCs
( large pdf)
Corrected slide 25
(Large pdf. There is a bad typo in slide 25 of the above)
Corrected slide 37 ('Quick') (Large PDF only)
Correction to
slide 37 (ÒQuickÓ) of Phonemes and
Allophones of English Consonants
ADDED
Wednesday 20 September 2006
Some notes on English reduced vowels
(large pdf)
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Week 2 Notes
English Consonants
(Introduction)
English consonants (large pdf)
English Consonants (power point)
English Consonants (small pdf)
English
Vowels (Introduction)
Phonemes of
Western Canadian English: keyword chart for
CONSONANTS AND
VOWELS PhonemesOfWCE.pdf ( Vowel [ɔ] corrected
10 November 2006)
Useful web
links week 2 (see also week 1)
Daniel
Currie Hall, University of Toronto Interactive Sagittal Section http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~danhall/phonetics/sammy.html
Carlos-Eduardo
Pi–eros, University of Iowa The sounds of English and
Spanish http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/
Week 1 Notes
(pdf
small) WBIntroVocalTract4Up.pdf
Useful web
links Week 1
Some
very nice graphics are available here at the link below.
You
can follow the ÔNextÕ and ÔPreviousÕ links to see material (from Dr Russell at
U. Manitoba)
that
is similar what weÕll be talking about in class in the next couple of weeks.
Terminology
may occasionally vary from the text weÕre using, so be a little careful.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/sec1/anatomy.htm
Some
useful (but optional) web links
The
International Phonetics Association:
http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html
IPA
FONTS from SIL: http://scripts.sil.org/encore-ipa
Henry
Rogers IPA fonts: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~rogers/fonts.html
New (Oct 3 2006)
Free
software (Great stuff,
but spotty documentation) for acoustic phonetics
(Praat
is very flexible. WaveSurfer is prettier for demos.)
Praat
--University of Amsterdam
Other
free software
Mark
Huckvale U.C. London (Windows only) Sinewave synthesis
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/sfs/esynth.htm
Notes on the
availability of extra lab exercises.
Some additional
practice materials developed by Dr John Hogan are available through the Arts
Resource Centre. Go to the wicket at Arts 134 (basement of Ôold Arts
buildingÕ). ask for Linguistics 205 materials. There are CDs (more convenient to locate specific
exercises) or cassette tapes that can be signed out there. This is not a
required part of the course, but some students have found these exercises
helpful. Several copies of the manual are available for use while you have the
audio materials signed out. In addition, you may ask the Linguistics secretary
(Ms Jana Tomasovic in 4-32 Assiniboia) to copy pages of the manual for you at
$0.10 per page.
Lecture notes
Formats: When I have time,
I will try to put up three versions of my notes. (pdf) Full-size PDF slides, (pdf small) smaller version 4 slides per page. and (ppt) Raw PowerPoint files and 4-up PDF
slides
Answers to
some transcription exercises from the text.
Dr Henry Rogers kindly provided some of his
answers for selected textbook exercises.
I have
deleted any that have been assigned in homework 1 they are available here:
Transcription
answers for selected exercises