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.  This course is also often taught by Diana Archangeli, Diane Ohala, and other faculty.
•  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.  During the past few years, this content has been taught as modules of Linguistics 510 and 514 (the phonology series).  Linguistics 515 itself will probably be taught again in 2011-12. 
  
•  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.  This course is available to be listened to on iTunes U!  You must have iTunes on your computer.  Within the UA public iTunesU site, click on Open Courses and scroll down to Spring 2010 or to 2008 (better sound quality) and find Linguistics 507.
  
• Linguistics 421/521.  Language Maintenance, Preservation, and Revitalization.  This is a joint graduate/undergraduate course in which we try to move beyond bemoaning the massive endangerment and loss of languages happening around the world, and learn about what to do about this problem.  We study the many methods various communities have tried or used in maintaining, increasing use of, or bringing back their heritage languages.  Methods range from dictionary making and other documentation through school-based teaching, summer immersion language camps, immersion preschools, and the master-apprentice program.  We try to analyze what factors contribute to a method being more or less successful given the particular situation in which it is used.  This class is primarily discussion-based, beginning from articles that document various communities' experiences with revitalization.
•  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  programming background.  This course has also been taught by Ying Lin recently.
•  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.
• Linguistics 689.  Professionalism in Linguistics.  This is a 1-unit course for linguistics Ph.D. students providing information and guidance on issues such as careers, the job search, and the writing of CVs, job cover letters, grants, and journal articles.
• Seminars.  While at the University of Arizona, I have taught two seminars, one on exemplar models of speech perception and one on speech reduction (e.g. in conversational speech).