This Subject Includes

• Course No: HS 735
• Course:
• Semester: I
• Title: Experimental Phonology
• Stream: Linguistics
• Description:

  Preliminaries of acoustic phonetics: filters, complex wave analysis, spectra and spectrograms; Auditory system and representations; Acoustic theory: voicing, voicing quanta, vowel formants, LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) spectral analysis; Pitch and duration; Vowel measurement: tube models, perturbation theory, adaptive dispersion; Obstruents: turbulence, quantal theory, auditory spectra; Vocal tract function; Phonation types; Auditory properties; Nasals and laterals: bandwidth, nasal stops, nasalization; Speech perception: perceptual maps, perceptual universality.