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 » MIT OpenCourseWare » Electrical Engineering and Computer Science » Laboratory on the Physiology, Acoustics, and Perception of Speech, Fall 2001

Readings

There is a set of readings for each lab, to be read before class.

Required Textbook

Stevens, K. N. Acoustic Phonetics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 026219404X.


LAB # Topics Readings
1 Recording Speech in a Sound-Treated Room, and Spectral Analysis and Waveform Editing by Computer Beranek, L. L. Acoustics. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1954, pp. 1-15, and 92-93.
2 Spectrographic and Spectrum Analysis of the English Vowel System
  • Peterson, G. E., and H. L. Barney. "Control Methods Used in a Study of the Vowels." J Acoust Soc Am 24 (1952): 175-185. Also in R. Kent et al. Papers in Speech Communication: Speech Production. Woodbury, NY: Acoustical Society of America, 1991, pp. 585-594.

  • Hillenbrand, J., et al. "Acoustic Characteristics of American English Vowels." J Acoust Soc Am 97 (1995): 3099-3111.

  • Stevens, K. N. Acoustic Phonetics. pp. 257-322.
3 Broadband Spectral Analysis of Sonorant Consonants
  • Acoustic Phonetics . Chapter 9.

  • Espy-Wilson, C. "Acoustic measures for linguistic features distinguishing the semivowels /wjrl/ in American English." J Acoust Soc Am 92 (1992): 736-757.
4 Spectral Analysis of Stop and Fricative Consonants: Sound Generation from Turbulence in the Vocal Tract
  • Kewley-Port, D. "Measurement of formant transitions in naturally produced stop consonant-vowel syllables." J Acoust Soc Am 72 (1982): 379-389.

  • Stevens, K. N. "Models for the production and acoustics of stop consonants." Speech Communication 13 (1993): 367-375.

  • Stevens, K. N. Chapters 7, and 8.

  • See also the following notes and reprints (in Speech Group Library):

  • Manuel, S. Y., and K. N. Stevens. "Formant transitions: Teasing apart consonant and vowel contributions." Proc International Conference of Phonetic Sciences. Vol. 4, Stockholm, Sweden, 1995. pp. 436-439.

  • Stevens, K. N., S. E. Blumstein, L. Glicksman, M. Burton, and K. Kurowski. "Acoustic and perceptual characteristics of voicing in fricatives and fricative clusters." J Acoust Soc Am 91 (1992): 2979-3000.

  • Stevens, K. N. "Diverse acoustic cues at consonantal landmarks." Phonetica 57 (2000): 139-151.
5 Sound Generation at the Larynx: Characteristics of the Glottal Source
  • Hanson, H. "Glottal characteristics of female speakers: Acoustic correlates." J Acoust Soc Am 101 (1997): 466-481.

  • Hanson, H., and E. S. Chuang. "Glottal characteristics of male speakers: Acoustic correlates and comparison with female data." J Acoust Soc Am 106 (1999): 1064-1077.

  • Löfqvist, A., L. L. Koenig, and R. S. McGowan. "Vocal tract aerodynamics in /aCa/ utterances: Measurements." Speech Communication 16 (1995): 49-66.

  • Ní Chasaide, A., and C. Gobl. "Contextual variation of the vowel voice source as a function of adjacent consonants." Language and Speech 36 (1993): 303-330.

  • Holmberg, E. B., R. E. Hillman, and J. S. Perkell. "Glottal airflow and transglottal air pressure measurements for male and female speakers in soft, normal and loud voice." J Acoust Soc Am 84 (1988): 511-529. Plus Erratum, JASA 85, 1787.
6 Formant Frequency Calculations from Area Function Data
  • Stevens, K. N. "The quantal nature of speech: Evidence from Articulatory-Acoustic data." In Human Communication: A Unified View. Edited by E. E. David, and P. B. Denes. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1972, pp. 51-66. ISBN: 0070154465.

  • Stevens, K. N. "On the quantal nature of speech." J of Phonetics 17 (1989): 3-45. See also text, pp. 136-152.
7 Sound Segment Reduction
  • Oshika, B. T., V. W. Zue, R. V. Weeks, H. Neu, and J. Aurbach. "The Role of Phonological Rules in Speech Understanding Research." IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ASSP-23, no. 1 (1975): 104-112.

  • Manuel, S. Y., S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, M. Huffman, K. N. Stevens, R. Carlson, and S. Hunnicutt. "Studies of Vowel and Consonant Reduction." Proc. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. Vol. 2, 1992, pp. 943-946.

  • Manuel, S. Y. "Speakers nasalize /ð/ after /n/, but listeners still hear /ð/. J." Phonetics 23 (1995): 453-476.
(Lab 7 cont.)
8 Prosody: Acoustic Evidence for Prosodic Constituent Structure
9 Intonation Labeling OR Factors Affecting Duration
  • Selkirk. Summary of Pierrehumbert's (1980) Grammar of Intonation. 1984.

  • Appendix A of the online TOBI-TRAINING manual; the file is in /usr/users/prosody/TOBI-TRAINING and is called the labelling-guide.
10 Speech Intelligibility and Confusion Matrices
  • Miller, G. A., and P. E. Nicely. "Analysis of perceptual confusions among some English consonants." J Acoust Soc Am 27 (1955): 338-352.

  • Kalikow, D. N., K. N. Stevens, and L. L. Elliot. "Development of a test of speech intelligibility in noise using sentence materials with controlled word predictability." J Acoust Soc Am 61 (1977): 1337-1351.
11 Introduction to Speech Disorders
  • Daniloff, R. G., K. Wilcox, and M. I. Stephens. "An acoustic-articulatory description of children's defective /s/ productions." J Communication Disorders 13 (1980): 347-363.

  • Monsen, R. B. "Normal and reduced phonological space: The production of English vowels by deaf adolescents." J Phonetics 4 (1976): 189-198.

  • Minifie, F. D., ed. Introduction to Communication Sciences and Disorders. San Diego, CA: Singular, 1994. ISBN: 1565932021.

  • Ohde, R. N., and D. J. Sharf. Phonetic Analysis of Normal and Abnormal Speech. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1992. ISBN: 0675206812.
Anatomy and Physiology of Speech Lecture only; no lab
12 Interpretation of Cineradiographic Motion Pictures of Selected Utterances
  • Stevens, K. N. Acoustic Phonetics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, chapter 1, 1999. ISBN: 026219404X.

  • Perkell, J. Physiology of Speech Production: Results and Implications of a Quantitative Cineradiographic Study. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, chapter 2, 1969. ISBN: 0262160269.
13 Speech Synthesis Using a Formant Synthesizer
  • Klatt, D. H. "Software for a Cascade/Parallel Formant Synthesizer." J Acoust Soc Am 67 (1980): 971-995.

  • Klatt, D. H., and L. C. Klatt. "Analysis, synthesis, and perception of voice quality variations among female and male talkers." J Acoust Soc Am 87 (1990): 820-857. (Optional)

  • Klatt, D. H. "Description of the cascade/parallel formant synthesizer." Chapter 3 of a book in preparation.
(Lab 13 cont.)
14 Measuring Speech Movements Using Data from X-ray Microbeam System Westbury, J. R. "The significance and measurement of head position during speech production experiments using the x-ray microbeam system." J Acoust Soc Am 89 (1991): 1782-1791.
Students Present Plans for Term Projects
15 Higher-Level Synthesis with a Formant Synthesizer, Using Quasi-articulatory Parameters Hanson, H. M., and K. N. Stevens. "Control of acoustic source parameters in speech synthesis: A quasi-articulatory approach." J Acoust Soc Am 112 (2002): 1158-1182.
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