SPPA 031 Phonetics

Fall 2008

Steven H. Long, Ph.D.

How to Reach Me

Office: Cramer Hall 230J

Lab: Cramer Hall 230T

Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Friday 2:00-3:00

Phone: 414-288-5190

Email: steven.long@marquette.edu

Readings

† purchase at Book Marq

* on electronic reserve at Raynor Library (https://marquette.ares.atlas-sys.com/ares/)

*	Bernthal, J.E. & Bankson, N.W. (1998). Articulation and Phonological Disorders. Fourth Edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. Pages 48-51, 378-390.
*	Crystal, D. & Davy, D. (1975). Advanced Conversational English. Harlow, UK: Longman. Pages 107–109.
*	Crystal, D. (1981). Clinical Linguistics. New York: Springer–Verlag. Pages 62-66.
*	Crystal, D. (1982) Profiling Linguistic Disability. London: Edward Arnold. Pages 114-117.
*	Goldstein, B. (2001). Transcription of Spanish and Spanish-Influenced English. Communication Disorders Quarterly., 23(1), 54-60.
*	Pollock, K.E., & Meredith, L. H. (2001). Phonetic Transcription of African American Vernacular English. Communication Disorders Quarterly, 23(1), 47-53.
*	Schane, S.A. (1973). Generative Phonology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Pages 62-66.
†	Shriberg, L.D. & Kent, R.D. (2003). Clinical Phonetics. 3rd edition. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
*	Trudgill, P. & Hannah, J. (1994). International English. 3rd Edition. London: Edward Arnold. Pages 37-55.
*	Wolfram, W., Adger, C., & Christian, D. (1999). Dialects in Schools and Communities. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Pages 1-17, 203-209.

Software

This will be used for the phonological analysis project (download from www.computerizedprofiling.org or run on computers in SPPA student lab)

Long, S.H., Fey, M.E, and Channell, R.W. (2007). Computerized Profiling (CP) (MS–DOS version 9.7.0). Milwaukee, WI: Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Marquette University.

Audio Tapes

These tapes have been converted to MP3 files and burned to CD. You will receive a CD to use and return at the end of the semester.

Shriberg, L.D. & Kent, R.D. (2003). Clinical Phonetics. 3rd edition. (Cassette tape recording: Packet of 4 tapes). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

Online Resources

http://wps.ablongman.com/ab_shriberg_clinical_3. This “Companion Web site” for the Shriberg & Kent textbook contains practice quizzes for each chapter as well as audio speech samples and transcription keys for additional practice with children who have speech delay and residual speech errors. Note that the transcription keys (in pdf files) are illegible. Download a legible key here.

Transcription practice (.mp3 files) (right click to download)

Terminology to review for Exams

The link for a review document may not work (i.e., you’ll see “The page cannot be found”) until a week before before that exam.

First Exam

Second Exam

Final Exam

Course Outline

Topics to be covered in each class are listed in the table below, along with the texts that should be read. Quiz dates are in boldface. Examination dates are also shown. The PDF links will let you download all the Powerpoint slides shown in class for a given unit. The PDF link for a given unit may not work (i.e., you’ll see “The page cannot be found”) until a few days before we begin that unit in class.

Dates	Topics	Readings	Practice	PDF
8/25 M 8/27 W 8/29 F	Course introduction Linguistic phonetics	Shriberg & Kent, ch. 1 & 2	Broad transcription of citation speech	click here
9/1 M	no class (Labor Day)
9/3 W 9/5 F 9/8 M	Overview of speech anatomy & physiology	Shriberg & Kent, ch. 3	Broad transcription of citation speech	click here
9/10 W 9/12 F 9/15 M	Vowels & diphthongs	Shriberg & Kent, ch. 4	Broad transcription of citation speech	click here
9/17 W 9/19 F 9/22 M 9/24 W	Consonants	Shriberg & Kent, ch. 5	Broad transcription of citation speech	click here
9/26 F	First Examination
9/29 M 10/1 W 10/3 F	Connected speech	Shriberg & Kent, pp. 99-111 Crystal & Davy	Broad transcription of connected speech	click here
10/6 M 10/8 W 10/10 F	Developmental events and processes in normally speaking children	Shriberg & Kent, Appendices G & H	Broad transcription of immature citation speech	click here
10/13 M 10/15 W	Computerized methods for recording phonetically transcribed data	Bernthal & Bankson, pp. 378-390 CP documentation (on disk)	Broad transcription of immature citation speech
10/17 F	no class (Undergraduate midterm break)
10/20 M 10/22 W 10/24 F 10/27 M 10/29 W	Diacritics	Shriberg & Kent, pp. 111-124	Narrow transcription of immature citation speech	click here
10/31 F	Second Examination
11/3 M 11/5 W 11/7 F	Nonsegmental phonology	Crystal (1981) Crystal (1982)	Prosodic transcription	click here
11/10 M 11/12 W 11/14 F 11/17 M	Phonological concepts & principles	Shriberg & Kent, Appendix C Bernthal & Bankson, pp. 48-51 Schane	Narrow transcription of immature citation speech	click here
11/19 W 11/21 F 11/24 M	Dialectal variation	Wolfram, Adger, & Christian Trudgill & Hannah Pollock Goldstein Shriberg & Kent, Appendix F	Broad transcription of dialectal speech	click here
11/26 W 11/28 F	no class (Thanksgiving holiday)
12/1 M 12/3 W	Dialectal variation (cont.)
12/5 F	catch-up
12/11 Th	1:00-3:00 pm Final Examination