Independent Studies

I. Exercise Assignment: Catford J. C. (2001). A practical introduction to phonetics. New York: Oxford University Press.

II. Reading Assignment:  Ladefoged, P. (2002). Vowels and consonants: An introduction to sounds of languages. MA: Blackwell Publishers Inc.

 

CHAPTER 1  Sounds and Languages

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CHAPTER 2  Pitch and Loundness

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CHAPTER 3  Vowels Contrasts

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CHAPTER 4  The Sounds of Vowels

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4.1 Acoustic Structure of Vowels

4.2 The Acoustic Vowel Space

4.3 Sound Spectrograms

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References

Crystal, D. (2000). A dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. (4th ed.). MA: Blackwell Publishers Inc.

謝國平。 (2000)。 語言學概要。 (二版)。 臺北:三民

CHAPTER 5  Charting Vowels

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CHAPTER 6  The Sounds of Consonants

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CHAPTER 7  Acoustic Components of Speech

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CHAPTER 8  Talking Computers

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8.1 How Writing Must Be Pronounced

82. Words and Sounds in Sentences

8.3 Synthesizing Sounds from a Phonetic Transcription

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References Crystal, D. (2000). A dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. (4th ed.). MA: Blackwell Publishers Inc.

CHAPTER 9  Listening Computers

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CHAPTER 10  How We Listen to Speech

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CHAPTER 11  Making English Consonants

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CHAPTER 12  Making English Vowels

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CHAPTER 13  Acoustic of the Larynx

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CHAPTER 14  Consonants Around the World

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CHAPTER 15  Vowels Around the World

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CHAPTER 16  Putting Vowels and Consonants Together

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