Experimental Phonetics and Phonology
Course Convenor: Professor Brechtje Post
This research seminar is held in the Phonetics Laboratory, and combines discussion of selected topics in phonetics, phonology, and their intersection; the sessions usually provide hands-on experience analysing speech samples, designing production and perception experiments, stimulus creation and manipulation, and (un)supervised machine learning. Topics covered have included the phonetics of stress and tone, speech rhythm, the phonology and phonetics of intonation, the analysis of chosen segmental types (e.g. vowels, rhotics, stops), phonological acquisition, and speaker-characterisation. There is sometimes scope to tailor the topics covered to the research interests of students in the seminar.