SPN 383 Syllabus, Fall 09

SPANISH 383M (48260) Fall 2009

TTH 9:30 – 11:00, BEN 1.118

INTRO SPANISH PHONOLOGY AND PHONETICS

Professor

Orlando R. Kelm

Mezes 4.146, 232-4534

orkelm@mail.utexas.edu

Office Hours: TTH 9:00 – 9:30, 12:30 – 1:30

Homepage: http://orlandokelm.wordpress.com/

A. Course Materials

Kelm, Orlando R. Course Blog: http://spn346.wordpress.com/

Guitart, Jorge M.  2004.  Sonido y sentido.  Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press.

Online Links, Materials and Background Information

General Linguistics

The International Phonetic Association.  Download charts and fonts.

http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/index.html

IPA-SAM fonts

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/shop/fonts.php

UCLA Phonetics Lab Data

http://phonetics.ucla.edu/

Peter Ladefoged Homepage.

http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/ladefoge/

John Ohala Homepage.

http://trill.berkeley.edu/users/ohala/index3.html

Paul Meier Dialect Services

http://www.paulmeier.com/ipa/charts.html

Yamada Language Center (Univ. of Oregon)

http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides.html

Speech Accent Archive (George Mason University)

http://accent.gmu.edu/index.php

Daniel Currie Hall, Interactive Sagittal Section

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~danhall/phonetics/sammy.html

Acoustic Phonetics, Waves, and Phonation

Wavesurfer.  Download the latest version (windows or mac):

http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/

PRAAT.  Download the latest version (windows or mac): http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

Pascal van Lieshout, PRAAT tutorial

http://www.slp.utoronto.ca/Assets/Misc+Resarch+Lab+Files/assets/PrattMan.pdf

Dan  Russell, Acoustic and Vibration Animations

http://paws.kettering.edu/~drussell/demos.html

Zona Land, Waves (more science than math)

http://id.mind.net/%7Ezona/mstm/physics/physics.html

Rob Hagiwara, How to read a spectrogram

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~robh/howto.html

Center for Spoken Language Understanding: Spectrogram Reading

http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/tutordemos/SpectrogramReading/spectrogram_reading.html

Media College, Sound Waves

http://www.mediacollege.com/audio/01/sound-waves.html

Ears, Nose & Throat – USA, Larynx Videos

http://www.entusa.com/larynx_videos.htm

Daniel C. Tullos, 400 Anatomy of Phonation

http://www.harding.edu/tullos/400AnatomyPhonation.pdf

Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics

University of Iowa Phonetics Library.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/about.html

Carlos Eduardo Piñeros, Dialectoteca de Español

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/dialects/

Kelm, Orlando.  Phonetic transcription examples

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/orkelm/phonetic/transcript.html

Kelm, Orlando.  Spanish Proficiency Exercises

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/spe/index.html

Kelm, Orlando.  Cultural Interviews

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/laexec/laexec.html

B. Class Schedule

August

Week 1

Thursday, 27

Course Introduction & Design

Week 2

September

Tuesday, 1

A brief review from the undergraduate SPN 346 course in practical phonetics

Thursday, 3

A brief review from the undergraduate SPN 346 course in practical phonetics

Week 3

Tuesday, 8

Sonido y sentido, Capítulo 1 Español: lengua y lecto

Sonido y sentido, Capítulo 2 Introducción a la fonética

Sonido y sentido, Capítulo 3 Modo de articulación

Sonido y sentido, Capítulo 4 Lugar de articulación, consonantes españoles y transcripción

Thursday, 10

La acústica 1:  El aparato fonador, la laringe, tiroides, cricoides, aritenoides, cuerdas vocales.

Week 4

Tuesday, 15

Sonido y sentido, Capítulo 5 Introducción a la fonología

Sonido y sentido, Capítulo 6 El segmento por dentro: rasgos distintivos

Sonido y sentido, Capítulo 7 Fidelidad, simplificación, principios fonológicos y variación

Sonido y sentido, Capítulo 8 Morfemas, palabras y sílabas

Thursday, 17

La acústica 2: Onda sonora simple, amplitud, frecuencia, onda sonora compuesta, espectrogramas,

Week 5

Tuesday, 22

Sonido y sentido, Capítulo 9 Fonemas plosivos sordos

Sonido y sentido, Capítulo 10 Fonemas plosivos sonoros

Sonido y sentido, Capítulo 11 Fonemas fricativos y africados

Sonido y sentido, Capítulo 12 Fonemas nasales

Thursday, 24

Checking in on SPN 346

Note:  Approve Term Research Project

Week 6

Tuesday, 29

Sonido y sentido, Capítulo 13 Fonemas laterales, yeísmo y elleísmo

Sonido y sentido, Capítulo 14 Sonidos róticos

Sonido y sentido, Capítulo 15 Vocales y semivocales

Sonido y sentido, Capítulo 16 Acento y asignación acentual

October

Thursday, 1

La acústica 3: Espectrogramas – vocales

Week 7

Tuesday, 6

Current Publications 1

Lord, Gillian. 2005. (How) Can We Teach Foreign Language Pronunciation? On the Effects of a Spanish Phonetics Course. Hispania 88(3): 557-567.

Thursday, 8

Sonido y sentido, Capítulo 17 Fonemas semivocálicos y contracción silábica

Sonido y sentido, Capítulo 18 Silabeo y sonancia

Sonido y sentido, Capítulo 19 Entonación

Note:  Purdue Conference, Prof. Kelm

Week 8

Tuesday, 13

Current Publications 2

Bradley, Travis G. 2006.  Phonetic Realizations of /sr/ Clusters in Latin American Spanish.  In Selected Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonetics and Phonology, ed. Manuel Díaz-Campos, 1-13, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Thursday, 15

La acústica 4: Espectrogramas – consonantes

Week 9

Tuesday, 20

Sonido y sentido, Capítulo 20 Fonología aplicada del español para anglohablantes

Thursday, 22

Sonido y Sentido Exam

Week 10

Tuesday, 27

Current Publications 3

Piske, Thorsten, Ian R.A. MacKay, James E. Flege. 2001. Factors affecting degree of foreign accent in L2: A review. Journal of Phonetics 29: 191-215.

Thursday, 29

Note: Rough Draft of Term Paper Due

November

Week 11

Tuesday, 3

La acústica 5: Entonación

Thursday, 5

Current Publications 4

Solé, Maria-Josep. 2002. Aerodynamic characteristics of trills and phonological patterning. Journal of Phonetics 30: 655-688.

Week 12

Tuesday, 10

Checking in on SPN 346

Thursday, 12

Student Presentation of Current Publications

Note:  BYU Case Competition, Nov 13-14

Week 13

Tuesday, 17

Student Presentation of Current Publications

Thursday, 19

Special Movie Day

Note:  ACTFL Conference, Nov 20-22

Week 14

Tuesday, 24

SPN 383 Training Projects in SPN 346

Thursday, 26

Thanksgiving holiday

Week 15

December

Tuesday, 1

Student Term Project/Research Paper Presentations

Note:  Final Draft of Term Project Due

Thursday, 3

Student Term Project/Research Paper Presentations

C.  Sonido y Sentido Exam

There will be one written exam on the content from Sonido y Sentido.  The exam will be taking in class and  consist of phonetic transcriptions and short essay questions.  The exam is worth 100 points.

D.  SPN 346 presentation

On Tuesday, Nov 24 students will present a lesson/activity to the SPN 346 class.  The activity should be designed to help undergraduate students with some aspect of Spanish phonetics or pronunciation.  The assignment is worth 50 points.

E.  Spectrogram Assignments

There are five small assignments related to the acoustics section of the course.  Each one is due the day after the acoustics lecture.  Each is worth 20 points.

1.  Draw an illustration of the larynx, the cartilages and muscles that are involved in phonation.

2.  Draw an illustration of sound waves showing the difference between amplitud and frequency.

2.  Record your voice saying “si, se, sa, so, su.”  Identify and measure the first and second vowel formants of each vowel on your spectrogram.

3.  Record your voice saying, “Me han dicho que tu abuelo le dio cinco carros a Monica Reyes.”  Identify the consonants in your spectrogram.

4.  Record your voice saying, “¿Había seis o siete cartas?  Eran seis, ¿verdad?”  Analyze the fundamental frequency of this phrase on your spectrogram.

F.  Current Publications

There are 4 articles that we will be reviewing as a class.  In preparation for those discussions, come to class with a brief written summary of the article (maximum of 1,000 words). Your summary should include the following and is worth 50 points:

• Phonological/Phonetic Theory, Scope or Basis
• Strengths and weaknesses of the research/article
• Validity of the conclusions
• Applicability of conclusions

G.  Student Presentation of Current Publications

Students choose a recent article that has been published in a scholarly journal (online or hard copy).  Write a brief review of the article (maximum 2,500 words), which should include the following:

• Phonological/Phonetic Theory, Scope or Basis
• Strengths and weaknesses of the research/article
• Validity of the conclusions
• Applicability of conclusions

Students will also lead an in-class discussion about the article.  Reviews may be written in English or Spanish.  The report and presentation is worth 100 points.

H.  Research Paper

Students will write an original, empirical research paper.  The final paper must be between 6,000 – 10,000 words in length (including references).  The topic and design must be approved by the instructor.  The term paper is worth 300 points.  The following dates will govern the writing of the paper:

Week 5, Thursday, Sept 24: Approve topic with instructor

Week 10 Friday, Oct 29: Turn in first draft of the paper

Week 15, Tuesday, Dec. 1: Turn in final draft of the paper

Week 15 T/Th: Present 30-minute oral summary in class

I.  Grading

The final grade is based on the percentage of total points earned (A=90+, B=80+, C=70+, D=60+).  No make up work is allowed.  Points are distributed on the following basis:

100 pts            Sonido y Sentido Exam (1 x 100 pts)

50 pts            SPN 346 Presentation (1 x 50 pts)

100 pts            Spectrogram Assignments (5 x 20 pts)

200 pts            Current Publications (4 x 50 pts)

100 pts            Presentation of Current Publications (1 x 100 pts)

300 pts            Research Paper (1 x 300 pts)

850 pts            TOTAL

Note:  The University of Texas at Austin provides upon request appropriate academic accommodations for qualified students with disabilities.  For more information, contact the Office of the Dean of Students at 471-6259, 471-6441 TTY.

Note: Here is a list of some articles that may be of interest.  These have been used in previous sections of SPN 383.

• Aguilar, L. (1999). “Hiatus and diphthong: Acoustic cues and speech situation differences”. Speech Communication 28, pp 57-74.

• Bradley, Davis G. (2004). “Gestural timing and rhotic variation in Spanish codas”. In Timothy Face (Ed.), Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology, 197-224. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Bradlow, Ann (1995). “A comparative acoustic study of English and Spanish vowels”. Journal of the Acoustic Society of America 97: 1916-1924.

• Bybee, Joan (2000) Lexicalization of sound change and alternating environments. In: Michael B. Broe & Janet B. Pierrehumbert, eds., Papers in Laboratory Phonology V: Acquisition and the lexicon, 250-268. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Colantoni, Laura, Jorge Gurlekian. 2004. Convergence and intonation: historical evidence from Buenos Aires Spanish. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 7(2): 107-119.
• Derwing, T., and M. Munro (2005). Second language accent and pronunciation teaching: A research-based approach. TESOL Quarterly 39: 379-98.
• Derwing, Tracey M., Murray J. Munro, Grace Wiebe. 1998. Evidence in Favor of a Broad Framework for Pronunciation Instruction. Language Learning 48(3): 393-410.
• Díaz-Campos, M. (2004). Context of learning in the acquisition of Spanish second language phonology. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 20: 249-273.
• Face, T. (2006). Intervocalic rhotic pronunciation by adult learners of Spanish as a second language. In C. A. Klee and T. L. Face (Eds.) Selected Proceedings of the 7^th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages (pp. 47-58). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

• Hualde & Chitoran (2003). “Explaining the distribution of hiatus in Spanish and Romanian”. Proceedings of the XV International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona 3-9 August 2003. Ed by Maria Josep Solé, Daniel Recasens and Joaquin Romero, pp 67-70.
• Hualde & Prieto (2002). “On the diphthong/hiatus contrast in Spanish: some experimental results”. Linguistics 40, pp 217-234.

• Hualde, José I. (2003). “El modelo métrico y autosegmental”. In Pilar Prieto (Ed.) Teorías de la entonación, 155-184. Barcelona: Ariel.
• Magen, Harriet S. 1998. The persception of foreign-accented speech. Journal of Phonetics 26:381-400.
• Neel, A. (2008). Vowel space characteristics and vowel identification accuracy. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 51: 574–585.

• Ohala, John (1997) The relation between phonetics and phonology. In Hardcastle and John Laver (Eds.) The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences, MA: Blackwell Publishers Inc, pp 674-694.

• Pilar Prieto, Holly Nibert and Chilin Shih (1996).”The absence or presence of a declination effect on the descent of F0 peaks? Evidence from Mexican Spanish” In Grammatical Theory and Romance Languages, Zagona, Karen (ed.), 197 ff.

• Pinker, Steven (1994) Capítulo 6: The Sounds of Silence, pp 163-172. In The Language Instinct. Penguin Books.

• Prieto, P. (2004). ” The search for phonological targets in the tonal space: H1 scaling and alignment in five sentence types in Peninsular Spanish”. In Timothy Face (Ed.) Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology, 29-59. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Sole, MJ (2002) Aerodynamic characteristics of trills and phonological patterning. Journal of Phonetics 30, pp655-688.

• Terrell, Tracy (1986). La desaparición de /s/ postnuclear a nivel léxico en el habla dominicana. In: Rafael Nuñez-Cedeño, Iraset Páez Urdaneta & Jorge Guitart, eds., Estudios sobre la fonología del español del Caribe, 117-163. Caracas: Ediciones La Casa de Bello.
• Williams, Lee (1977). “The voicing contrast in Spanish”. Journal of Phonetics 5: 169-184.
• Willis, Erik (2002). “Is there a Spanish imperative intonation revisited: Local considerations. Linguistics 40: 347-374.

• Willis, Erik (2004). “Dominican Spanish absolute interrogatives in broad focus”. In Timothy Face (Ed.) Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology, 61-93. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.