Introduction

How to handle speech

Thorsten Trippel

Universität Bielefeld

Overview

Introduction
Requirements
Technicalities
Overview to the course

Video

Youtube and the difference of spoken and written language (Search for: fishmaster misheard lyrics )

Introduction

Thorsten Trippel
Graduate of Bielefeld University
- Mathematics
- English
Ph.D. Linguistics/English: theoretic approaches to the lexicon
Research interests
- spoken language
- lexicons
- language resources
- texttechnology
- German expert in ISO TC 37 SC 4 on language resources

Introduction

Tutor: Anne-Christine Exner
BA student
Tutorial sessions Thursdays 12-14 in C01-273
For questions and discussion of homework

Requirements

Regular attendance; misses < 19% (attendance > 80%), i.e < 3 misses
Homework
Active participation
Final exam: 2009-07-28T10:00 in H1
No homework|no attendance = no active participation

E-Mailing the lecturer or tutor

Put HTHS in the subject line
Write a simple statement such as "Dear Mr Trippel, I still have a question I could not answer from the book...."

Technicalities

Login for the computers: your computer center login
Find my webpages, go to teaching, Summer 2009, How to Handle Speech
E-mail contact: use HTHS in subject
Make sure to be registered in the EKVV

Software you may want to get

Parallel class

This class runs in parallel with Vivian Gramley's classes How to handle speech
There is also a tutorial
See also her webpages

What is this class about

Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology

Phonetics 3 A's:
- Production of speech sounds: Articulatory phonetics
- Physical properties of soundwaves: Acoustic phonetics
- Perception of sounds: Auditory phonetics
Phonology
- Organisation of sounds in a language
- Generalizations over the sound patterns

Speech sounds

Not spelling
Vowels: sounds
Consonants: sounds
Independent of spelling

How do you pronounce:

ghoti

How do you pronounce:

ghoti

Anecdote used by George Bernhard Shaw

gh as in laugh
o as in women
ti as in nation
/fɪʃ/

Ghorget orthography!

Transcription
Speech
IPA

Set up of this class

Articulatory Phonetics
The International phonetic alphabet
Transcription
Acoustic Phonetics and analysis tools
Auditory Phonetics
Phonemes and Allophones
Phonotactics
Prosody

Class website