Dafydd Gibbon: Guangzhou Prosody Lectures 2018

Notice: Summer School in Germany, 2019

Jinan University and the University of Mannheim, Germany, are starting a new cooperation and exchange programme in 2019. JNU students are welcome to apply for admission to the Summer School organised by the University of Mannheim in June-July 2019. Further information is contained in the Summer School slides.
Mannheim is an excellent location for travel to various destinations (direct high speed train to Paris, Milan, Berlin, Hamburg...) and participants often use their weekends to explore Europe.
Additional information: Housing in a shared apartment in Mannheim averages at about 350€ per month. Students will probably need about another 350€ to cover expenses for food and local public transport, therefore a total estimate (including 250€ registration fee) would be approximately 950 to 1000 Euros.

Objectives

The objectives of the courses, which are similar but with different levels for first and second years, are:
  1. to introduce the domain of prosody, the 'music of speech', and the methods used for describing it;
  2. to introduce the melodies of speech, their phonetic bases (articulation rate, fundamental frequency, pitch) and methods of studying them;
  3. to introduce the rhythms of speech and methods of studying them;
  4. to introduce approaches to prosodic phonology and their methods.

Materials and Tools

  1. Materials:
    1. The class presentations will be available in PDF format on this page after each lecture. The presentation files are large as they contain many graphics as illustrations, and may take some time to download.
    2. Assignments for preparing for the following class will be given during the preceding class.
    3. The materials to be used in the course are speech recordings. Some of these will be recorded by participants in the course, some will be provided by links on this page. Please download these recordings to start with:

      The North Wind and the Sun (English), first sentence 281 kB
      The North Wind and the Sun (English), complete 1.4 MB
      The North Wind and the Sun (Mandarin), first sentence 156 kB
      The North Wind and the Sun (Mandarin), complete 1.9 MB
  2. Online tools:
    1. CRAFT (Melody: tone, accent, intonation)
    2. TGA (Rhythm: speech timing)
  3. Offline tools: Please download the following tools and install them on your laptops:
    1. Praat
    2. Audacity

Schedule

Date 1st year 2nd year
2018-10-30 Sociophonetics and Prosody (this file is large, 7MB, and may take some time to download)
Different parts of this presentation are for both first and second year classes.
The presentation also provides introductory material for Lectures 2 (Melody) and 3 (Rhythm) in each class.
Section 1: Labov's Sociophonetics
Section 2: The Sociolinguistic Survey Method: OSCAR
Introduction to the Praat software. 		Section 1: Labov's Sociophonetics
Section 2: The Sociolinguistic Survey Method: OSCAR
Section 3: The Dialectometric method
2018-11-06 The melodies of speech:
Working with Praat: pitch and duration
  1. Overview of basic Praat functionality (lecture)
  2. Review of digital phonetics (lecture)
  3. Exercises with recorded or downloaded data.
The melodies of speech:
Working with Praat and CRAFT
  1. Practical work with Praat
  2. Review of digital phonetics (lecture)
  3. CRAFT: technical aspects of F0 estimation (pitch tracking, frequency demodulation)
2018-11-13No lectureNo lecture
2018-11-20 The rhythms of speech - syllables and words:
Working with Praat and with TGA 		Melodies and rhythms of speech - from discourse to syllables:
Working with Praat and TGA
2018-11-27 Topics in discourse phonetics and phonology: utterances and dialogues Topics in discourse phonetics and phonology: utterances and dialogues
D. Gibbon, Samstag, 3. November 2018 02:14:51 Uhr CET