音韻學專題:感知和生產環節

One of the core questions in linguistics is how speech perception and production are coupled to enable effective communication between interlocutors and/or to initiate potential sound change. To address the structure of the two modules of speech processing, we will focus on a specific methodology, spontaneous phonetic imitation, which refers to the subconscious shifts in one’s production patterns prompted by listening to a model talker. This methodology has been shown to be versatile and demonstrated its sensitivity to a wide range of topics within phonetics and phonology, including the following themes: • Phonetic saliency, non-contrastive phonetic features • Phonological structures of one’s native language • Cases of phonemic near-mergers • L2 acquisition and phonetic imitation • Social factors and speech accommodation While familiarizing students with the current theories and experimental methodology that can be used to effectively address theoretical questions, the seminar ultimately aims to help students develop their own research questions and determine viable methodologies to test their hypotheses. This class presupposes that students have already had a solid knowledge of phonetics and phonology.

Prerequisites: Phonetics & Phonology, or permission of the instructor

• Participation (20%) 1. You should come to class on time. If you miss classes more than three times, you would be asked to withdraw the course and take it again when you are ready to commit. 2. In-class presentations (10%): class presentation of two articles and the final project 3. Discussion on E3 (10%): Everyone posts two questions/comments for the article in the online discussion forum in E3 by 5 pm Thursday. • Homework assignments (20%, 4 assignments*5%) Grading rubric: 0 not handed in 1 handed in but completely off the point 2 partially completed/understood 3 acceptable 4 good 5 excellent • Midterm (30%) • Final project (40%)

There is no designated textbook, but we will be reading a list of selected research articles throughout the semester.

地點

HC3, R412

時間

Fridays 3-4:30pm, or by appointment