Week 1
Lecture 1 Aug 26: Introductions and Course Overview
Read and bookmark: Syllabus and this Weekly Schedule [also bookmarked on our Slack channel]Review: Collection of USC Support ResourcesVocal Tract Anatomy
Reading Due: DSWM Chapter 2 Section 1 pp. 23-39Odyssey "Speech: Dances of the Vocal Tract" by Rubin & GoldsteinLecture 2 Aug 28: English Sounds
Reading Due: DSWM Chapter 2 Section 1 Two handouts for you to print and keep: mini IPA Chart for English Sounds; English Contrasts. (These are combined into a single pdf here, albeit slightly smaller.)Week 2
Sept 1 Monday is a University Holiday
Lecture 1 Sept 2: English Transcription
Reading Due: DSWM Chapter 2 Section 1 pp. 39-50Handouts: Bring handouts from Week 1Lecture 2 Sept 4: Waveforms and Class Practice Transcription
Reading Due: DSWM Chapter 2 Section 2 pp. 51-56Homework One released English Transcription; due on September 12
Week 3
Lecture 1 Sept 9: Speech Acoustics: Source Filter Theory
Reading Due: DSWM Chapter 2 Section 2 pp. 51-64Two Handouts: Johnson on Spectrum (handout/reading); Source Filter Handout (courtesy of Louis Goldstein)Sept 9 Optional Tuesday Night Activity Intro Zoom chats with Professor Byrd [info will be in the Slack]
Lecture 2 Sept 11: Spectrograms, Formants and Vowels
Reading Due: cont. DSWM review Chap 2 Section 2Handout: Vowel spectra handout (from A Course in Phonetics )**Homework One Due, September 12**
Week 4
For Homework Two, you get a CHOICE. Pick one: TWO-A is on identifying articulatory gestures from MRI video of the vocal tract. TWO-B is on identifying phonetic events in a waveform of an utterance.
Homework Two-A released Identifying Consonant Articulation, due Sept 26
Homework Two-B released Waveform Exercise, due Sept 26
Lecture 1 Sept 16: Global English and Varieties of English
Reading Due: DSWM Chapter 3 Section 2 pp. 89-97 NYT Everyone has an Accent; Californian Spoken Here [pdf] (altaonline)Lecture 2 Sept 18: Varieties of English (cont.)
Nicole Holliday's lecture "It's in the tone" [28 min video]Week 5
Lecture 1 Sept 23: Sounds of the World's Languages [SOWL] 1: Consonants and Vowels
Reading Due: DSWM Chapter 3 Section 1 pp. 72-88, Top 7 countries where people speak the most languagesHandout: Complete IPA ChartLecture 2 Sept 25: SOWL 2: Tone, Phonation Type, & Non-Pulmonic Consonants (Airstream Mechanisms)
Reading Due: A Course in Phonetics Ladefoged & Johnson pp. 144-159 (pdf) with accompanying language samples**Homework Two due Sept 26
Homework Three Released: English Variety due Oct 19
Week 6
Lecture 1 Sept 30: Review of Brightspace test interface; HW 3 and Project 1 alerts
Lecture 2 Oct 2: Puzzles of Speech Perception
Reading Due: DSWM Chapter 5 Section 1 pp. 114-127Myers "From Sound to Meaning" Physics Today 2017Video: Your Brain: Perception Deception Documentary NOVA PBS (53 minutes; suggest watching [at least] to 40 min);Week 7
Lecture 1 Oct 7: TEST 1 ( covers through Week 5)
Thurs Oct 9 is a USC Holiday
Reading to finish before next week's lectures: Your Mental Dictionary
Week 8
Lecture 1 Oct 14: Bilingualism
Reading Due: Language Files 12 Chapter 8, File 8.5 (starts p. 345); BBC Scotland Dr. Thomas Bak Podcast on the benefits of bilingualism (28 min, pls listen at least to 18min)Leon Panetta: Americans are losing out because so few speak a second language. Being Bilingual Changes the Architecture of Your Brain (Wired)Lecture 2 Oct 16: Phonology, the Mental Lexicon, and Speech Errors
Reading Due before lecture: Your Mental Dictionary**Homework 3 due Oct 19**
Week 9
Lecture 1 Oct 21: Intro to clinical considerations: Clinicians and Populations
and Project Intro
Reading: Intro to Comm Disorders: Chapter 1 pp. 2-8 and Chapter 2 pp. 26-33
And selecting a speaker for your interview
**Interview Written Report Assignment Released, due Nov 16**
Lecture 2 Oct 23 Guest Speaker Professor Toben Mintz—Reading and Developmental Dyslexia
Reading Due: DSWM Chapter 7 (pp. 182-205)Supplemental reading if you'd like to learn more about reading disorders: Intro to Comm Dis Chapter 6
Week 10
READ COMPLETE ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS FOR FINAL RESEARCH TOPIC ORAL PRESENTATION
Lecture 1 Oct 28: Human Hearing
and Intro to Project 2 and its Research
Lecture 2 Oct 30: Deafness, Hearing Loss, and Hearing Technologies
Reading Due: Intro to Comm Disorders: Chapter 12 333-352, 360-363, 369-372; DSWM Chapter 11 pp. 266-276 (up to "Voice Disorders").Between Friday and Monday: Choose one of these two award-winning documentary movies to watch (of course, if you want, you can watch both). Movie A is about deafness and the emergence of the cochlear implant 20 years ago; Movie B is about stuttering.
Extra Credit for writing up three questions/observations about the movie; due via email.
Documentary A: "Sound and Fury" (1hr 30m) from 2000
Required brief pre-reading/watching BEFORE movie (note the differing dates for each of these materials, as these ideas have matured over time):Documentary B: "When I Stutter" (director John Gomez; 1hr7min)
Week 11
Lecture 1 Nov 4: Signed Languages
Reading Due: DSWM Chapter 9 pp. 224-234 onlyLecture 2 Nov 6: Speech Disorders: Stuttering, Cleft Palate, Degenerative Neuromotor Disorders
Reading Due: DSWM Chapter 11 remainder (pp. 276-281); Intro to Comm Disorders Chapter 8 225-235, 243-246Video: In a short (8 min) documentary, John Hendrickson describes the frustration of having a stutter (New York Times)Saturday Nov 8: RESEARCH TOPIC AND INITIAL SOURCES for oral presentation due to Professor Byrd for approval.
READ COMPLETE ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS.
Week 12
Nov 11 Veteran's Day holiday no classes
Lecture 2 Nov 13: Voice Disorders: Laryngeal dysfunction, oropharyngeal cancer and remediations
Reading Due: Intro to Comm Disorders Chapter 9 247-261Washington Post: "What men should know about cancer that spreads through oral sex" [pdf]We have a vaccine for six cancers; why are less than half of kids getting it?Resources for quitting vaping: KickIt CA, Truth Initiative, smokefree.gov
Week 13
**Interview due EOD Monday November 16** Turn in via email--word doc or pdf; no google docs
Lecture 1 Nov 18: Guest lecture Professor Mary Byram Washburn: The Brain in Language Breakdown: Aphasia
Reading: Introduction to Comm Disorders Chapter 7 179-204, Chapter 10 288-290When speech goes wrong: Evidence from aphasia (Sheila Blumstein)Lecture 2 Nov 20: Test 2 : only covers Week 8 through Week 13, i.e. not cumulative
Week 14
Lecture 1 Nov 25: Speech Technologies
Online Class Evals
Nov 26-30 Thanksgiving is a USC Holiday
Week 15
Lecture 1 Dec 2 Guest Lecture from Professor Kristina Lerman on Chatbots You will gather in our classroom but Prof Byrd and likely our speaker will be on zoom, so bring headphones. Zoom link (if needed) will be on Slack.
Lecture 2 Dec 4 No class meeting work on your final presentations
Zoom meetings by appointment this week to work on final presentations.
Final Exam Meeting December 16 11am-1pm In Person Oral Presentations (attendance required)
in regular classroom