LING 530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Vocal Tract, Generative Grammar, University Of Manchester

• School: McGill University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 530
• Professor: Francisco Martinez

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Assignment 2, due tonight by 11:59 pm. Office hours: wednesdays & thursdays 2-6 pm. We need to know how we can use it to model basically all the speech sounds that we have seen so far. If we are given a sound, we should be able to say what the acoustic source is, what the lter is, etc. Description of speech segments in terms of articulation, aerodynamics, and acoustics. How speakers use phonetics and phonology to manage conversation. We will have a list of 100 de nitions to study from again. From multiple choice questions with explanations required, to brief questions of about half a page. Long-answer questions requiring you to read, think, and discuss using knowledge gained in this course. By similar, he means that he will give us words an we have to master these words. But spectrogram readings means we should be able to read all relevant material on a spectrogram.