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501G

Phonetics II: Prosody
(Ensk hljóðfræði II: Tónfall samfellds máls)
Pétur Knútsson, Autumn 2011

Go to week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Finally...

Week	Date	Topics	Documents
1	30 Aug	Segmental Phonetics and Prosody	Introductory slide: segmental and supra-segmental phonetics Screen capture first session second session
2	6 Sep	Helpful links from Phonetics I (Warning - use the Back button on your browser to return to this page; the links below are full of links to Phonetics I) Sentence Stress Isochrony Weak & strong vowels again Placement of sentence stress. Weak forms Look-up table	Slides from Phonetics I which I shall probably use in class: word stress sentence stress placement of sentence stress Exercise 1 Screen capture
3	13 Sep	Nucleus The rightmost tendency Broad and narrow focus Old and new information (fresh and shared information)	Preparation for week 3 Sentences and text for classwork IPs and nuclear placement Screen capture
4	20 Sep	Exceptions to the rightmost tendency Moving the nucleus around - discourse stress patterns	We shall continue with last week's slide Exercise 2 (includes answers to Exercise 1) Mini-exercise 3 report Screen capture
5	27 Sep	In my absence: Moving the Nucleus Around (video) (I suggest you download - right-click and say "Save Target As") ( Smaller file, poorer quality, for easy download)	Slides used in the video Class exercise: providing contexts
6	4 Oct	Reading week (moved forward from Week 7 because I am abroad this week)	My answers to Exercise 2 Exercise 4
7	11 Oct	Tones on the nucleus Four basic English tones: Fall, Rise, Fall-rise, Rise-fall	Notes on Exercise 2 Nuclei and tones (1) Movie: No! Screen capture EXTRACT: notes to ex.2
8	18 Oct	Beginning acoustic phonetics Working with Praat	Intro to acoustic phonetics First exercises with Praat Screen capture: Praat Main session
9	25 Oct	Tone languages and intonation languages 6 working tones: High Fall, Low Fall, High Rise, Low Rise, Fall-Rise, Rise-Fall	You can throw anything you like into the fire Tone languages and intonation languages Intonation 1 Intonation 2 Exercise 5 Video on Praat Screen capture (remember to right-click and save to your desktop before viewing - works better)
10	1 Nov	Notes on assignment 4 Tones on the nucleus and the tail High and Low Heads The head and pre-head	Intonation 3 (Please let me know if the audio links Intonation 4 (don't work - I'll add links here Screen capture: first session second session
11	8 Nov	Working with Praat: studies in pitch Working with Audacity: capturing and editing your own audio files	Exercise 6 How to save and send Praat audio files How to include prosody signs in assignments
12	15 Nov	Working with texts and audios deaccenting	Due date for Exercise 4 repeat Deaccenting Daniel Jones's intonation curves Screen capture Final paper (60%). Due date: 16 December
13	22 Nov	Review and final paper	Due date for Exercise 6. Screen capture
Finally ....		My answers to exercise 5 How I graded exercise 5 Comments on Exercise 5 - Pitch Settings Comment on comment : Pétur fails to deaccent! How high/low is your voice?	My answers to exercise 6, questions 1-10 How I graded exercise 6 Comments on Exercise 6 What is your pitch range?
My answers for Questions 1 and 2 of the final paper

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