Courses
Graduate courses for credit offered in 2011.
2011 spring semester
Spoken Language Corpora
In this one-semester hands-on course, students acquire the technical skills for using computers to analyze spoken language.
Much of the work for this course is done individually outside of class (e.g., installing software, interviewing people, collecting speech, analyzing waveforms). Classroom time is for presenting students' assignments. Assignments are structured incrementally, and require substantial hands-on effort. We will use the freely available, excellent software package praat.
Students shall present their work, and critique that of their classmates. Intense class participation is mandatory. There will be no written exam or term paper.
Prerequisites: Students must have taken at least undergraduate courses in linguistics (especially phonetics and phonology), statistics (descriptive statistics at the minimum; predictive statistics preferred), and experiment design.
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Much of the work for this course is done individually outside of class (e.g., installing software, interviewing people, collecting speech, analyzing waveforms). Classroom time is for presenting students' assignments. Assignments are structured incrementally, and require substantial hands-on effort. We will use the freely available, excellent software package praat.
Students shall present their work, and critique that of their classmates. Intense class participation is mandatory. There will be no written exam or term paper.
Prerequisites: Students must have taken at least undergraduate courses in linguistics (especially phonetics and phonology), statistics (descriptive statistics at the minimum; predictive statistics preferred), and experiment design.
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2011 fall semester
Lectures on Language Acquisition
Loosely connected lectures are offered by 7 instructors over 15 class sessions.
During the 4th and 5th class sessions, I will talk about phonetics and phonology.
After taking my 2-part lecture, students will be able to: (a) describe the theories and analytical methods of articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, and auditory phonetics, and (b) describe the historical development of the study of phonology (e.g., structural linguistics, generative phonology, natural phonology, autosegmental phonology, government phonology, optimality theory).
The lecture, slides, and reading assignments will be in English. The in-class discussions, writing assignment and/or quiz may be in either English or Japanese depending on the student's preference.
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During the 4th and 5th class sessions, I will talk about phonetics and phonology.
After taking my 2-part lecture, students will be able to: (a) describe the theories and analytical methods of articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, and auditory phonetics, and (b) describe the historical development of the study of phonology (e.g., structural linguistics, generative phonology, natural phonology, autosegmental phonology, government phonology, optimality theory).
The lecture, slides, and reading assignments will be in English. The in-class discussions, writing assignment and/or quiz may be in either English or Japanese depending on the student's preference.
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