- 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