Course Overview

This course provides advanced analytic skills including Praat scripting and statistical analyses. Each student will carry out a research project in experimental phonetics/linguistics.

Learning Achievement

1) To formulate a question and develop a research proposal in phonetics/linguistics
2) To understand the value and limitations of quantitative analysis

Competence

Generic competences: critical/creative thinking
Subject-specific competences: understanding linguistics

Course prerequisites

Prerequisites are "Experimental Phonetics" and "Experimental Linguistics".

Grading Philosophy

Assignments 20%
Final presentation 30%
Final paper 50%

Course schedule

This course discusses research in phonetics with particular attention given to the interfaces between prosody and other subfields in linguistics. Students are expected to carry out an experiment and write a research paper on relevant topic.

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Hwang Hyun Kyung

Other information

1. Depending on the situation, classes may be conducted online. For real-time (synchronous) classes, ZOOM will be used; Download and install the app on your system. A unique link & password to the classroom will be notified in the Manaba course page.
2. This course belongs to "Major elective subjects ②" (専門科目の選択②).

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