English Phonetics
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PRAAT
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IPA

Practice info
Sound

Assignment
1. Create a sound and print it out with frequencies marked (using Praat; due date: March 9)
2. Assignment 3: male; female (heed, hid, hade, head, had, who'd, hood, low, law)
3. Assignment 4: sound
4. Final sound

  1. Sample format for the term paper

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Keys to assignment 1
Keys to assignment 3
Keys to assignment 4
Topics for the mini project
Sample format for the term paper

1. Download this charts and complete them.
2. Read the IPA chart., or diacritics chart here.
2.1 Listen to the sound here
2.2 Listen to this passage and transcribe it with
IPA and diacritics (due April 9, 2007). Keys wave
3. Download the PRAAT files first, then open the file in PRAAT
3.1 cream, voice, mile
3.2 thought, dream, good, lazy, argument, e20, e21, e22, e23, e24
Course information
Chapter 1 (textbook)
Chapter 8 (textbook)

Discussion 1 (Chp. 1)
Discussion 2 (Chp. 8)

Discussion 3 (Chp. 2)
Discussion 4 (Chp. 4)
Discussion 5 (Chp. 3)
Discussion 6 (Chp. 5)
Discussion 7 (Chp. 6)
Review

Syllabus
Chapter 1
Chapter 8
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Acoustic Phonetics
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