Course Description
This course will provide to general introduction to linguistic phonetics: how the sounds of world languages are produced and perceived. In the four weeks of the course, we will cover three subareas of phonetics (the three aspects of speech sounds): (i) articulatory phonetics, (ii) acoustic phonetics, and (iii) auditory phonetics. While introducing a variety of experimental and analytic methodologies to study the production and perception of speech sounds, the course will discuss the implications of phonetics for phonological structures and representations, as well as phonetic theories on sound variation and change.
Area Tags: Phonetics, Phonology, Speech
(Sessions 1 & 2) Monday/Thursday 9:00am – 10:20am
Location: ILC S413
Note: This class will not meet on June 22nd; there will be a make-up class on Wednesday, June 28th at 10am in ILC N400.
Instructor: Jianjing Kuang
Jianjing Kuang is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Penn Phonetics Lab. She also currently serves as Associate Editor of Journal of Acoustical Society of America. Dr. Kuang’s research is concerning native speakers’ knowledge of phonological contrasts and the nature of phonological categories: how phonological contrasts are shaped by the constraints of speech production and perception; and how high-dimensional cues from multiple linguistic levels are integrated into the processing of the phonological structures. Her research emphasizes on holistic study of both production and perception, integration of experimental and computational modeling, and empirical studies on a wide range of under-documented languages.
