37448 - Experimental Linguistics Laboratory (1) (2nd cycle)

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Docente: Mario Vayra
  • Credits: 6
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 0973)

Course contents


Readings/Bibliography

P. Ladefoged,   Phonetic Data Analysis. An Introduction to Fieldwork and Instrumental Techniques , Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2003.
  - Supplementary materials that will be made available on line (Student Guide: Experimental Linguistics Laboratory: "Teaching Material").

 

Teaching methods

Practical computer exercises alternate with lectures. Together, they aim to illustrate the basic techniques, problems and methods of the experimental phonetics analysis, both at the articulatory and at the acoustic level. Supplementary materials of lectures and exercises will  be made available  on-line during the course (Student Guide: Experimental linguistics laboratory: "Teaching Material").

Assessment methods

The attendance at lesson and the partecipation to the Course activities will be the main evaluation criterium in the final exam, which is made of an oral colloquium. During the colloquium we will analyze problems of experimental phonetics, such as those discussed during the different phases of the experiment to which the student partecipated.

Teaching tools

Lessons will include PowerPoint presentations. A freely downloadable software for acoustic analysis will be presented

(http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/).

Office hours

See the website of Mario Vayra