PPT-ENG 528: Language Change Research Seminar

Sociophonetics An Introduction Chapter 10 Sound Change And Related Articles Linguistic vs Social Factors Two common assumptions They can be distinguished They perform different functions . Sociophonetics. : An Introduction. Chapter 6: Prosody. Sections 6.1-6.3. What’s Prosody?. Anything non-segmental in phonology or phonetics, including:. pauses. rate of speech. lexical tone. word stress. Sociophonetics. : An Introduction. Chapter 5: Vowels. Duration. Several uses in speech:. phonological contrasts in quantity (i.e., long vs. short vowels, tense vs. lax vowels, single vs. geminate consonants). Sociophonetics. : An Introduction. Chapter 7: Voice Quality. Lab Exercise # 4. I’ll put 14 . soundfiles. and accompanying . textgrids. on . Moodle. You fill in all the points and labels that go in the tone tier and the break index tier. School of Public Policy The University of Michigan The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1220 Discussion Paper No. 509 Fooling Ourselves: Evaluating the Globalization and Growth Sociophonetics. : An Introduction. Chapter 4: Consonants. Vowel synthesis exercise. 1. Record yourself saying a short sentence and digitize it.. 2. Apply some sort of filtering (. lowpass. , . highpass. Sociophonetics. : An Introduction. Chapter 5: Vowels (Continued). Lindblom. (1963), Undershoot. Third Laboratory Assignment. From any interview consisting at least partly of conversation, choose a diphthong and measure at least 25 tokens of it. (You’ll need a diphthong with plenty of tokens, so don’t pick /. Sociophonetics. : An Introduction. Chapter 8: Combinations of Different Types of Variables. The General Problem. Studies tend to focus on one variable or a few related variables. Then they generalize and talk about social identities or patterns of linguistic change. Sociophonetics. : An Introduction. Chapter 1: Introduction. The International Phonetic Alphabet. This is the latest version of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). It was developed beginning in 1886 as a way of representing the sounds of any language. It’s been used ever since for auditory (impressionistic) transcription. Dialectologists and sociolinguists have relied heavily on it.. Sociophonetics. : An Introduction. Chapter 2: Production. Acoustic Concepts. 3 dimensions of sound: . frequency. amplitude. t. ime . phase might be considered a fourth dimension. Frequency. Frequency is the time it takes the wave to go through its pattern; measured in cycles per second (cps), or Hertz (Hz). Sociophonetics. : An Introduction. Chapter 12: Lateral Transfer. and Associated Articles. Don’t Forget!. Fill out the class evaluation. https://classeval.ncsu.edu. Let’s see if we can do better than the spring 2010 class, for which only two out of thirteen students filled out the form. Sociophonetics. : An Introduction. Chapter 1: Introduction. The International Phonetic Alphabet. This is the latest version of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). It was developed beginning in 1886 as a way of representing the sounds of any language. It’s been used ever since for auditory (impressionistic) transcription. Dialectologists and sociolinguists have relied heavily on it.. Sociophonetics. : An Introduction. Chapter 9: Variation and the Cognitive Processing of Sounds. And Related Articles. Background: Phonology and Phonetics. The traditional understanding of the difference between phonetics and phonology (from Bloomfield 1933 and earlier scholars, followed by Chomsky & Halle 1968):. Sociophonetics. : An Introduction. Chapter 11: Social Factors and Phonetics. Contributions from Sociology. Various ideas that are part of the basic sociolinguistics lore were adopted from sociology, such as. Sociophonetics. : An Introduction. Chapter 6: Prosody. Sections 6.4-6.5. Preliminaries of Intonation. Boundaries or Juncture: delimit different kinds of phrases or individual words. Edge Tones: mark higher-level boundaries.