Teaching

• Linguistics 314. Introduction to phonetics. This is an introductory course covering articulatory and acoustic phonetics, with a strong lab component. The course includes a variety of hands-on homework assignments, including measurement of vowel formants, transcription of English and other languages, and evaluation of speech synthesis programs.
• Linguistics 515. Phonological phonetics. This is an introductory graduate level course on phonetics and experimental phonology. It covers articulatory and acoustic phonetics and speech perception. The course includes a strong lab component to teach students how to make acoustic phonetic measurements, and also involves student presentations on several articles from the current literature.
• Linguistics 507. Statistical analysis for linguists. This is a graduate level course for students working with quantitative data in any subfield of linguistics or related disciplines (phonetics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, second language acquisition). The course covers ANOVA, ANCOVA, power, subjects and items analyses, correlation, regression, and selected other methods that are used in linguistic research. The course also provides instruction in using SPSS for statistical analyses. This course requires only minimal math, but goes into depth about issues of how statistical methods can be used to analyze various types of linguistic data. Data for practice 1 practice 2 practice 3-pt.1 practice 3-pt.2 practice 3 Word doc. Reading 4/11-13.
• Linguistics 478/578. Speech technology. This is a joint graduate/undergraduate course in speech technology, taught from a linguistic perspective. The purpose of the course is to cover material that students would find useful for working in the speech technology industry, that is not covered by other linguistics courses or by computer science courses. The main topics will be speech synthesis and speech recognition, with some time devoted to speaker recognition and other language technologies. This course requires either a previous course in phonetics or some programming background.
• INDV 101. Individuals and Societies: Language. Introductory general education course covering linguistic analysis and sociolinguistics. Why do young people use the word "like" so much? Why can't we talk to our computers in plain English? Should English be the official language of the U.S.? Why is English spelling so crazy, and should we fix it? Etc.