Instruction on using PRAAT

 For the two assignments you should learn how to use PRAAT if you don't already

know the program.  The Institute will have a tutorial on it, as given in the following 

announcement.

NEW: Praat Workshop*
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This workshop will take place on Sunday, July 10, in MUEN E064, from
1-5PM. Praat is a powerful, open-source phonetics program which offers a
magnificent host of tools for the recording, analysis, measurement and
editing of speech sounds. Unfortunately for new users, Praat can be as
intimidating as it is powerful, and the initial learning curve can make
getting started with Praat seem more daunting than it really has to be. In
the first hour of the workshop, designed for people with little experience
with Praat or digital audio, participants will discuss the very
basics--tasks like opening files, making recordings, viewing spectrograms
and waveforms, measuring durations and formant heights, and making TextGrid
annotations. In addition, participants will discuss the basics of digital
audio, discussing different audio formats, sampling rates and all the
other relevant facets of audio digitization. For the remainder of the
workshop, participants will dive in to more advanced Praat usage. This
workshop will be led by Will Styler, a CU PhD student and research assistant
in CU's Phonetics Lab. Will has spent countless hours working in Praat, both
as a researcher performing measurements and as a programmer, creating and
troubleshooting automated methods for measuring vowel nasality, creak and
resonance.

Info on LSA Summer Institute course 7800-071

Meeting Time:  Monday - Thursday 1:320 - 3:15 pm
Location:  Clare 111
Instructoror:  John J. Ohala
email:  ohala@berkeley.edu
homepage:http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/phonlab/users/ohala/index3.html

Office hours:  3:30-5:00;  Location: IBS 1B41   ... or by appointment


Reading:  Can be accessed and downloaded from the above homepage or links below::

Ohala, J. J. 1983. The origin of sound patterns in vocal tract constraints. In: P. F. MacNeilage (ed.), The production of speech. New York: Springer-Verlag. 189 - 216.

Ohala, J. J. 1981. The listener as a source of sound change. In: C. S. Masek, R. A. Hendrick, & M. F. Miller (eds.), Papers from the Parasession on Language and Behavior. Chicago: Chicago Ling. Soc. 178 - 203.

Ohala, J. J. & Riordan, C. J. 1979. Passive vocal tract enlargement during voiced stops. In: J. J. Wolf & D. H. Klatt (eds.), Speech communication papers. New York: Acoust. Soc. of Am. 89 - 92. [Abstract: J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 65.S23 (1978).]

Ohala, J. J. 1987. Experimental phonology. Proc. Ann. Meeting, Berkeley Ling. Soc. 13.207-222

Ohala, J. J. 1990. The phonetics and phonology of aspects of assimilation. [And: A response to Pierrehumbert's commentary] In J. Kingston & M. Beckman (eds.), Papers in Laboratory Phonology I: Between the grammar and the physics of speech. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 258-275; 280-282.

Ohala, J. J. 1995. A probable case of clicks influencing the sound patterns of some European languages. Phonetica 52.160-170.

You are, of course, free to read any of the other papers listed on my homepage and to comment on them, raise issues they provoke, etc. whether in email to me, in class discussion, or in office hours.

Assignments:  There will be two:  TBA