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**HW 2 (A or B) 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 DictionaryReading: DSWM Ch. 7**Homework 3 due Oct 19**
Week 9
Lecture 1 Oct 21:  Intro to clinical considerations: Clinicians and Populations
and Project 1 Intro
Reading:  Intro to Comm Disorders: Chapter 1 pp. 2-8 and Chapter 2 pp. 26-33 
And selecting a speaker for your interview
**Project 1 Interview Written Report Assignment Released, due Nov 16** FWIW, I suggest turning it in earlier to make the end of the semester easier.
Lecture 2 Oct 23 Guest Speaker Professor Toben Mintz—Reading and Developmental Dyslexia
Reading Due: DSWM Chapter 12Supplemental reading if you'd like to learn more about reading disorders: Intro to Comm Dis Chapter 6Week 10
READ COMPLETE ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS FOR FINAL RESEARCH TOPIC ORAL PRESENTATION
Lecture 1 Oct 28:  Human Hearing  
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").Week 11
Lecture 1 Nov 4: Signed Languages
Reading Due: DSWM Chapter 9 pp. 224-234 onlyBetween Wednesday 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)
Lecture 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)Week 12
Nov 11 Veteran's Day holiday no classes
Wednesday Nov 12: RESEARCH TOPIC AND INITIAL SOURCES for oral presentation due to Professor Byrd for approval. 
READ COMPLETE ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS.
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 (Indiana University) on Chatbots and Psychological Health. This lecture will be on zoom. See zoom link in Slack. Please be on time and participate; this is important information for you. Prof. Byrd will be present on zoom too.
Reading: OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every WeekLecture 2 Dec 4 No class meeting work on your final presentations
Zoom meetings by appointment next week to work on final presentations.
Final Exam Meeting December 16 11am-1pm In Person Oral Presentations (attendance required) 
in regular classroom