Textbook
[Johnson] = Johnson, Keith. Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. 3rd ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. ISBN: 9781405194662. [Preview with Google Books]
Supplementary Readings
Ladefoged, Peter. Elements of Acoustic Phonetics. 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780226467641.
Stevens, Kenneth N. Acoustic Phonetics. MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780262194044.
Ladefoged, Peter. A Course in Phonetics. 5th ed. Cengage Learning, 2005. ISBN: 9781413006889.
Readings by Session
TOPICS | READINGS |
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1: Introduction to phonetics and grammar | Optional: ![]() |
2: Audition, analog / digital conversion | [Johnson] Chapters 1, 4 and Chapter 3, pp. 49–68. |
3: Position of phonetics in grammars |
Flemming, Edward. "Scalar and Categorical Phenomina in a Unified Model of Phonetics and Phonology." Phonology 18, no. 1 (2000). |
4: Source-filter model of speech production | [Johnson] Chapter 2. |
5: Acoustics of vowels | [Johnson] Chapter 6. |
6: Spectral analysis techniques |
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7: Theory of adaptive dispersion | Liljencrants, Johan, and Bjorn Lindblom. "Numerical Stimulation of Vowel Quality Systems." Language 48, no. 4 (1972): 839–62. |
8: Source-filter analysis of fricatives | [Johnson] Chapters 7 and 8. |
9: Speech perception I: Cues and perceptual space |
[Johnson] Chapter 5. Fujimura, Osamu. "Perception of Stop Consonants with Conflicting Transitional Cues: A Cross-Linguistic Study." Language and Speech 21, no. 4 (1978): 337–46. |
10: Speech perception II: Distinctiveness and cue strength | No readings |
11: The acoustics of nasals and laterals | [Johnson] Chapter 9. |
12: Speech production | No readings |
13: Coarticulation: Gestures and timing |
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14: Basic statistics | No readings |
15: Targets in speech production | Villacorta, Vergilio M., Joseph S. Perkell, and Frank H. Guenther. "Sensorimotor Adaptation to Feedback Perturbations of Vowel Acoustics and its Relation to Perception." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122, no. 4 (2007): 2306. |
16: Phonology and lexical access | Mitterer, Holger. "On the Causes of Compensation for Coarticulation: Evidence for Phonological Mediation." Perception & Psychophysics 68, no. 7 (2006): 1227–40. |
17: Phonetic grammar and lexical access | No readings |
18: Phonetics and sound change |
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