Ling 342: Laboratory Phonology
Lectures: Tuesdays, 10-12 (G104)
Tutorials: Tuesdays, 12-13 (G104)
Instructor: Barış Kabak (G110; office hours: Wednesdays 10-12)
Tutor: Eva Kasselkus (G102)
Course description: Laboratory Phonology deals with the mental
aspects of phonological structure, and through vigorous experimentation, it
explores the interaction between articulatory and
acoustic, i.e., physical, properties of speech and the way we produce, process
and represent it. This course is designed to introduce students with conceptual
(e.g., formulating research questions, and relating them to psycholinguistic
methods) and some technical skills (e.g., designing a perception experiment,
running basic statistics) to undertake Laboratory Phonology research. We will
primarily focus on crosslinguistic studies on the
perceptual processing and production of consonant clusters, as well as
phenomena in relation to the mental representation of phonotactic
constraints. The course consists of 2-hour meetings, plus laboratory tutorials.
Bunta, Ferenc, Ingrid
Davidovich & David Ingram. 2006.
The relationship between the phonological complexity of a bilingual child’s
words and those of the target languages. International
Journal of Bilingualism 10, 71-88.
Chang, Yueh-chin,, Jiaqing Hong
& Pierre Hallé.
2007. English cluster perception by Taiwanese Mandarin speakers. The
Proceedings of the International Conference for Phonetic Sciences 16,
797-800.
Davidson, Lisa. 2006. Phonology,
phonetics, or frequency: Influences on the production of non-native sequences. Journal
of Phonetics, 34:1, 104-137.
Davidson, Lisa. 2007. The relationship
between the perception of non-native phonotactics and
loanword adaptation. Phonology 24:2, 261-286.
Guion, Susan G. 2006. Knowledge of English
stress in second language learners: first language and age of acquisition
effects. Korean Journal of English
Language and Linguistics 6(3), 465-492.
Kabak, Baris
& Willam J. Idsardi. 2007.
Perceptual distortions in the adaptation of English consonant clusters:
Syllable structure or consonantal contact constraints? Language and Speech, 50: 23-52.
Matthews, John &
Cynthia Brown. 2004. When intake exceeds
input: language specific perceptual illusions induced by L1 prosodic
constraints. International Journal of
Bilingualism 8, 5-27.
Mah, Jennifer & John
Archibald. 2003. Acquisition of L2 length contrasts. In Juana M. Liceras et
al., Proceedings of the 6th Generative
Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2002), 208-212.
Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Sanders, Robert. 2008.
Tonetic sound change in Taiwan Mandarin: The case of Tone 2 and Tone 3 citation
contours. In Marjorie K. M. Chan & Hana Kang (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese
Linguistics (NACCL-20), 87-107.
Ostapenko, Olesya. The
optimal L2 Russian syllable onset. LSO Working
Papers in Linguistics 5 (Proceedings of WIGL 2005), 140-151.
Grade distribution:Presentation: %40
Participation (Lectures & Lab-assignments): %20
Research Proposal: %40
Schedule: |
Date |
Location |
Lecture |
Laboratory |
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April |
21 |
|
Introduction |
|
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|
28 |
|
Phonotactic
knowledge: theoretical and empirical issues |
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May |
5 |
G104 |
Article for
discussion: Davidson
(2006) |
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|
|
12 |
G104 |
Article
for discussion: Davidson (2007) |
Introduction
to Praat, read and work through the manual
(Available at
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/linguistics/corpora/material/PRAAT_workshop_manual_v421.pdf) |
|
|
19 |
G104 |
|
(3 hours) Praat:
“Create your own stimuli”/Analysis of stimuli |
|
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25 |
Maclab G209 |
Article for
discussion: Kabak & Idsardi (2007) |
AX, Hit rate and false alarm rate |
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June |
2 |
Maclab G209 |
8:30-10:00 10:15-11:30
(Kabak & Idsardi
2007, continued) |
What is Psyscope, what can it be used for? Develop
experiment structure for lexical decision
and AX tasks Work on own experiment (Available at
http://psyscope.psy.cmu.edu/PsyMan.pdf) |
|
|
9 |
G104 |
Presentation-I: Tobias
& Wen-Hsuan Sanders (2008) Chang et al. (2007) |
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16 |
G104 |
Presentation-II: Tanja & Evgeniya Mah & Archibald (2003) Ostapenko (2005) |
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23 |
G104 |
Presentation-III: Doris
& Julia Matthews & Brown (2004) Guion (2006) |
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30 |
G104 |
Presentation-IV: Judit Bunta, Davidovich & Ingram
(2006) |
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July |
7 |
G104 |
|
(3 hours) Data
analysis & some theoretical background: Using Excel
to sort data Intro to
JMP |
|
|
14 |
G104 |
Presentation
of research proposals |
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21 |
G104 |
Presentation
of research proposals |
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