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Amazon logo Johnson, Keith. Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2003. ISBN: 9781405101233.

Supplementary Readings

Amazon logo Ladefoged, Peter. Elements of Acoustic Phonetics. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780226467641.
Covers much of the same material as Johnson, with somewhat different presentation.

Amazon logo O'Shaughnessy, Douglas. Speech Communication: Human and Machine. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1987. ISBN: 9780201165203.
Much more technical discussion of acoustic theory and DSP techniques.

Amazon logo Stevens, Kenneth N. Acoustic Phonetics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780262194044.
Comprehensive and authoritative presentation of the acoustic theory of speech production.

Amazon logo Ladefoged, Peter. A Course in Phonetics. 5th ed. Belmont, CA: Heinle, 2005. ISBN: 9781413006889.
If you need to brush up on articulatory phonetics, get hold of a copy of this text, and make sure you are familiar with the material in chapters 1-4, 6-7, and 9-10.

There is a Web site designed to accompany Ladefoged's A Course in Phonetics. This contains some useful material and exercises for reviewing topics in articulatory phonetics and transcription: UCLA Phonetics Lab Data.

Readings by Session

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1

Introduction: applications of phonetics, overview

Introduction to acoustics

Ladefoged, Peter. Chapter 1 in Elements of Acoustic Phonetics.

Johnson, Keith. Chapter 1 in Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics.
2

Audition

A/D (Analog to Digital) conversion

Johnson, Keith. Chapter 2 in Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. pp. 19-33.

———. Chapter 3 in Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics.
3 Position of phonetics in grammars

Flemming, Edward. "Scalar and Categorical Phenomena in a Unified Model of Phonetics and Phonology." Phonology 18 (2001): 7-44.

Amazon logo Keating, P. A. "Universal Phonetics and the Organization of Grammars." In Phonetic Linguistics: Essays in Honor of Peter Ladefoged. Edited by V. Fromkin. Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 1985, pp. 115-132. ISBN: 9780122689901.

References (PDF)
4 Source-filter theory

Johnson, Keith. Chapters 5 and 6 in Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics.
5

Acoustics of vowels

Spectral analysis techniques

Ladefoged, Peter. "Fourier Analysis." Chapter 10 in Elements of Acoustic Phonetics, from p. 160.

———. "Digital Filters and LPC Analysis." Chapter 11 in Elements of Acoustic Phonetics.
6

Quantal theory

Adaptive dispersion

Source-filter analysis of the properties of speech sounds: ficatives and stops

Johnson, Keith. Chapters 7 and 8 in Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics.

Stevens, K. N. "On the Quantal Nature of Speech." Journal of Phonetics 17 (1989): 107-121.

Lindblom, Bjoern, and Olle Engstrand. "In What Sense is Speech Quantal?" Journal of Phonetics 17 (1989): 107-121.
7 Introduction to statistics

Max, Ludo, and Patrick Onghena. "Some Issues in the Statistical Analysis of Completely Randomized and Repeated Measures Designs for Speech, Language, and Hearing Research." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 42 (April 1999): 261-270.
8

Speech perception I

Source-filter analysis of speech sounds: nasals and laterals

Johnson, Keith. Chapters 4 and 9 in Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics.

References (PDF)
9

Speech production

Models of coarticulation

Amazon logo Keating, Patricia A. "The Window Model of Coarticulation: Articulatory Evidence." In Papers in Laboratory Phonology 1: Between the Grammar and Physics of Speech. Edited by John Kingston and Mary E. Beckman. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780521368087.

Amazon logo Browman, C. P., and L. Goldstein. "Tiers in Articulatory Phonology, with Some Implications for Casual Speech." In Papers in Laboratory Phonology 1: Between the Grammar and Physics of Speech. Edited by John Kingston and Mary E. Beckman. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780521368087.

References (PDF)
10

Timing and coordination

Prosody and speech production

 Amazon logo Chitoran, Ioana, Louis Goldstein, and Dani Byrd. "Gestural Overlap and Recoverability: Articulatory Evidence from Georgian." In Laboratory Phonology 7. Edited by Carols Gussenhoven and Natasha Warner. Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003. ISBN: 9783110170870.
11 Speech perception II: the problem of variability Ladefoged, Peter, and D. E. Broadbent. "Information Conveyed by Vowels." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 29, no. 1 (January 1957): 98-104.
12 Student presentations (no readings)