Homework for 2009-06-02

• Revision exercise: Label the two diagrams and the axes. Please explain which two different forms of visualisation of speech sounds you can see in the PRAAT picture.
• What does the blue line in the PRAAT picture indicate? Please explain this term.
• Read: Ashby and Maidment, Chapter 11
• Have a look at the terminology quiz available via the chapter 5 material at http://www.cambridge.org/uk/linguistics/cill/resources/ipswebhome.htm
• In order for you to get a proper overview of the parts of the ear as well as their functions, complete the following table by including for each part of the ear the corresponding term in German as well as its role and function(s).
  

  Section	Part	German	Function
  Outer ear	Pinna or auricle	...	...
  	Meatus or outer ear canal	...	...
  Middle ear	Eardrum	...	...
  	Auditory ossicles (mallet, anvil, stirrup)	...	...
  Eustachian tube		...	...
  Oval window		...	...
  Inner ear	Cochlea	...	...
  	Basilar membrane	...	...
  	Organ of Corti	...	...
  Auditory nerve		...	...

• Using praat, transcribe the audio file on the word level. Find
  • three different vowels, including one diphthong
  • a voiced plosive
  • a unvoiced plosive
  • a voiced fricative
  • a voiceless fricative
  • one approximant
  Compare the spectrograms while they are pronounced; the fundamental frequency (F_0) and the first and second formant
• E-mail the TextGrid File the description (keywords), and the questions prior to the next class, 2009-06-02T14:00 MESZ using the keyword: HTHS: Transcription