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Phonetics And Phonology: A Broad Overview

Prof. Shakuntala Mahanta · IIT Guwahati

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Lectures

Week 1: Human speech apparatus

  1. Lec 1 : Articulation of consonants 1 Video
  2. Lec 2 : Articulation of consonants 2 Video
  3. Lec 3 : Articulation of vowels Video

Week 2: Sounds of the world's languages

  1. Lec 4 : Language endangerment and linguistic diversity Video
  2. Lec 5 : Linguistic diversity - consonants in the languages of the world Video
  3. Lec 6 : Linguistic diversity - consonants and vowels in the languages of the world Video
  4. Lec 7 : Linguistic diversity - conclusion Video

Week 3: Human speech apparatus and Properties of sounds

  1. Lec 8 : Acoustic analysis: sound waves Video
  2. Lec 9 : Acoustic analysis: source filter theory and spectrograms Video
  3. Lec 10 : Acoustic analysis: vowels and formants Video
  4. Lec 11: Acoustic analysis: formant calculation Video

Week 4: Speech perception

  1. Lec 12: Perceptual cues, variability in the speech signal, acoustic-phonetic invariance Video
  2. Lec 13: Segmentation problem, categorical perception, cp in infants and animals Video
  3. Lec 14: Measuring perceptual distinctiveness, multidimensional scaling, speech perception theories Video

Week 5: Phonology (1)

  1. Lec 15: development of the ideas of phonemes and features Video
  2. Lec 16: phonemes as categories, phonemes in different languages, allophonic rules Video
  3. Lec 17: problems in phonemic analysis, context and phonotactics Video
  4. Lec 18: Psychological reality of phonemes Video

Week 6: Phonology (2)

  1. Lec 19 : Distinctive features and natural classes Video
  2. Lec 20 : Phonological rule application Video
  3. Lec 21 ; Distinctive features, feature economy and markedness Video

Week 7: Phonology (3)

  1. Lec 22 : Morphophonological rules Video
  2. Lec 23 : Syllables Video
  3. Lec 24 : Stress Video

Week 8: Tone and Intonation

  1. Lec 25 : Phonetics and phonology of intonation, microprosody, stylization Video
  2. Lec 26 : Nuclear tone, pitch accent and boundary tones Video
  3. Lec 27 : Focus, givenness Video

Live Session

  1. Live Session 15-02-2021 Video
  2. Live Session 15-03-2021 Video
  3. Live Session 14-03-2022 Video
  4. Live Session 22-03-2022 Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Guwahati
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Shakuntala Mahanta
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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