Teaching

The Phonetics Lab is part of the UCLA Linguistics Department, which offers undergraduate and graduate courses in phonetics. These include:

regular undergraduate linguistics courses

Linguistics 102, Introduction to Applied Phonetics (offered in Winter and sometimes summer)
Linguistics 103, Introduction to General Phonetics (offered every quarter and sometimes summer)
Linguistics 104, Experimental Phonetics (offered once a year, usually in now in Winter)
Linguistics 111, Intonation (offered every other year)

other undergraduate courses

Honors Collegium 16, Science of the Singing Voice (offered occasionally)

regular graduate courses

(Linguistics 204a, graduate course no longer offered; instead grad students take Linguistics 104)
Linguistics 211, graduate course that alternates with Linguistics 111
Linguistics 203, Phonetic Theory (offered about every other year)
Linguistics 204b, Speech Production (offered about every third year)
Linguistics 204c, Speech Perception (offered about every other year)
Linguistics 239, Linguistic Methods Laboratory, course on research methods

Linguistics 251 (graduate proseminars) ad-lib, past and current year's topics listed on department page
other graduate activities

Linguistics 403, graduate students attend sections of Linguistics 103 to prepare for Practical Phonetics test
Linguistics 422, Practicum ("spectrogram reading") (offered every quarter, usually Mondays 1-2)
Linguistics 260, Seminar ("lab meeting") (offered every quarter, current meeting time and schedule are on department calendar)

Instructional materials related to our courses are listed in the following table.

all phonetics courses
SIL phonetic fonts download page (Unicode Gentium, Encore IPA93, unicode DoulosSIL)

all phonetics courses
CLICC in Powell Library (location, lab hours, classrooms, software, etc.); CDH lab classroom in Rolfe

all phonetics courses
Audio recording in 2101B Campbell - link to online signup for this room

all phonetics courses
anatomical models (larynx, auditory system, brain) are in the cabinet in the lab kitchen

all phonetics courses
videos etc. in the phonetics lab . Note that many of these have been digitized, and are on the hard drive in the cabinet. Some are also online.

all phonetics courses
link to the UCLA Instructional Media Library on-line catalog (for films, videos, DVDs) (individual items listed below by course, but cannot be linked individually)

graduate courses
older instructional materials on some statistical analyses used in phonetics in our Statistics section

Linguistics 102/103
(General Phonetics)
Textbook: We use Rogers, The Sounds of Language, from 2000, due to its relatively low cost

Ling. 102/103
optional books sometimes ordered: Pullum & Ladusaw (1996) Phonetic Symbol Guide 2nd edition; Handbook of the International Phonetic Association (1999)

Ling. 103
(and Ling. 120)
The master reserves list: a standing list of books kept on 2-hour reserve in Powell Library, so that they remain behind the reserve desk rather than on the open shelves. These include phonetic descriptions of languages commonly studied for 103 term projects. With a professor's note, students can check out books for longer than 2 hours. Link to the library's reserve page (select this quarter's instructor, OR Linguistics, OR 103 Phonetics).

Ling. 102/103
UCLA Phonetics Lab Data (descended from the old "Sounds of the World's Languages" hypercard stacks), sound materials compiled by Peter and Jenny Ladefoged as a general resource, and to supply examples for the textbooks (5th edition of A Course in Phonetics and 1st edition of Vowels and Consonants) - archival teaching materials

Ling. 102/103
IPA Soundsearch application for searching for segments simultaneously in the Phonetics Lab Data and the Illustrations of the IPA. Gives you links to all the languages in these sources that contain a requested sound; if the language is in the Phonetics Lab Data, it takes you directly to the clickable webpage. Currently not available.

Ling. 102/103
Normal Speech Articulation (the "Iowa movie") VHS, DVD and film in the IML (retired film copy is in cabinet in General Lab) - but now freely available online at the Internet Archive

Ling. 102/103
"Human Speech Articulation" (Caldwell), 2002 DVD in the IML, is meant to replace "Normal Speech Articulation" but we prefer the original

Ling. 102/103 (and 104)
"Vocal Parts Module" and "The Ear": CDs and laminated cards about the larynx and the ear, on the shelf in the General Lab

Ling. 103
term project resources: sample handouts for the term project from Pat Keating, Spring 2007

Ling. 103
term project resources: Ethnologue

Ling. 103
term project resources: UCLA Language Materials Project

Ling. 103 term project resources: Illustrations of the IPA - map and list of languages
Ling. 102/103
Bruce Hayes's program to generate non-word production tests of equivalent difficulty (ask him for it)

Ling. 102/103
Pat Keating's use of Apple's text to speech in a class assignment

Ling. 102/103
transcription: Phonetics Lab's downloadable transcription exercises see below

Ling. 102/103
IPA: IPA homepage (including links to Sound files for Illustrations of the IPA)

Ling. 102/103
IPA: IPA's page for the IPA chart; 1-page pdf of chart (2015 Kiel version)

Ling. 102/103 IPA symbol pickers: westonruter; lexilogos; r12a; typeit
Ling. 102/103
IPA: CD "The Phonicon 1.0" by M. Stanley Whitley; an entire course and reference materials but the license does not permit putting it on the CLICC server for general student use; on the shelf in the General Lab

Ling. 102/103
IPA: Cascadilla's "IPA eyechart" (for fun)

Ling. 102/103 IPA: Cascadilla's IPA Bingo (English phonemes only) is in the teaching materials drawer
Ling. 102/103
English: Speech Accent Archive at George Mason University

Ling. 102/103 David Crystal's Original Pronunciation of Shakespeare site
Ling. 102/103
link to Esling's IPA chart iOS app

Ling. 102/103
link to Glasgow U's IPA chart with vocal tract ultrasound videos; USC real-time MRI IPA charts

Ling. 102/103
link to U. Iowa app on English, Spanish, Korean, Chinese

Ling. 102/103
Daniel Hall's interactive midsagittal section at the U Toronto

Ling. 403
information on graduate advising page about practical phonetics requirement

Ling. 102/103, 422
Bruce Hayes's practice spectrogram reading

Ling. 104/204
(Experimental Phonetics)
the usual textbook: K. Johnson (2012) Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics

Ling. 104
optional books sometimes ordered: Kent & Read (1992) The Acoustic Analysis of Speech (especially for its chapter on the use of a Klatt synthesizer); Ladefoged Elements of Acoustic Phonetics

Ling. 104

Ling. 104, 111
link to our page of Praat resources

Ling. 104
Sensimetrics's CD "Speech Production and Perception I" (copies of no-longer-available CD are in the lab's secret teaching materials drawer) (this one not in the IML, and copies formerly in the CLICC appear to be lost)

Ling. 104
Automatic Speech Recognition (Kai-Fu Lee/Apple Computer) 1993 video in the IML

Ling. 104
Speech Perception, 1997 ASA video by Pat Kuhl on speech perception in the IML

Ling. 104
2002 3-DVD set from Caldwell "Human Speech Acoustics", "Human Speech Articulation", "Human Speech: source-filter Theory", all in the IML

Ling. 104
"Now Hear This" 1994 video in IML on auditory system

Ling. 104
Sensimetrics's CD "Auditory Interactivies" (one copy only) - 58 lessons on signal analysis, acoustics, auditory perception.

Ling. 104
"Auditory Demonstrations", 1987CD from IPO/ASA, on the shelf in the General Lab

Ling. 104
Hartmut Traunmüller's History of speech synthesis

Ling. 104
Klatt's sound examples of history of speech synthesis hosted at Indiana U. for the Acoustical Society
Sami Lemmetty's Text to speech demos (including Klatt's illustrations)

Ling. 104
Larry Rosenblum's McGurk demo at UC Riverside

Ling. 104
artificial larynx (great for illustrating source-filter theory) is in the cabinet in the lab kitchen

Ling. 104, 422
a Powerpoint file of spectrograms to be read from Pat Keating

Ling 104 (graduate)
articles we have read in seminar about measurements: Vallabha & Tuller 2002 on formants; Francis et al. 2003 on VOT

Ling. 111/211 (Intonation)
sample syllabus: Winter06

Ling. 111
ToBI materials at OSU

Ling. 111
Sun-Ah Jun's Korean ToBI at UCLA

Ling. 104, 422 (Practicum)
Rob Hagiwara's Monthly Mystery Spectrogram page at the U. of Manitoba

Ling. 204b (Speech Production)
1993 ASA Speech Production videos by Maureen Stone and others, in the IML (use those to put on reserve) and in the cabinet in the General Lab

Ling. 204b
information on using the lab's equipment for measuring aspects of speech production is in the Physiology section

Ling. 204b; Dissection
Peter Ladefoged et al. dissection manual (on-line version that replaces the earlier WPP #77), now housed on the Linguistics Department's Ladefoged page as well as in the online WPP series as #102

HC 16 (Singing voice)
the usual textbook: J. Sundberg (1987) The Science of the Singing Voice, Northern Illinois University Press

HC 16
optional books: G. Nair (1999) Voice - Tradition and Technology, Singular Publishing; R. Miller (1996) The Structure of Singing, Schirmer; I. Titze Principles of Voice Production

HC 16
"Human Speech: Source-filter Theory" (Caldwell) 2002 DVD in the IML; and similarly the series of DVDs called "The Singer's Voice", some of which overlap with the "Human Speech" series.

Downloadable phonetic transcription exercises. These are a subset of the old Language Lab tapes. For each exericise, there is a pdf handout which contains links to the sound files. One way to use these exercises is to open the handout file, print out a copy to write on, but leave the file displayed on the screen. Click on the screen links to hear the individual sound files. The other way is to download the files to your own computer.

Exericse 1:     Broad_English    handout      zip of all files
Exercise 2:     Narrow_English    handout    (no answer key)    zip of all files
Exercise 3:     Tone_drills    handout       zip of all files
Exercise 4:    Hindi    handout      zip of all files
Exercise 5:    Argentinian_Spanish    handout       zip of all files
Exercise 6:    Khana    handout       zip of all files
Exercise 7:    Tagalog    handout     zip of all files
Exercise 8:     Ibibio    handout        zip of all files

not used in phonetics courses, but relevant to phoneticians: Bruce Hayes's downloadable software page (FeaturePad, OTSoft etc.)

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last updated by Pat Keating, October 2017

all phonetics courses	SIL phonetic fonts download page (Unicode Gentium, Encore IPA93, unicode DoulosSIL)
all phonetics courses	CLICC in Powell Library (location, lab hours, classrooms, software, etc.); CDH lab classroom in Rolfe
all phonetics courses	Audio recording in 2101B Campbell - link to online signup for this room
all phonetics courses	anatomical models (larynx, auditory system, brain) are in the cabinet in the lab kitchen
all phonetics courses	videos etc. in the phonetics lab . Note that many of these have been digitized, and are on the hard drive in the cabinet. Some are also online.
all phonetics courses	link to the UCLA Instructional Media Library on-line catalog (for films, videos, DVDs) (individual items listed below by course, but cannot be linked individually)
graduate courses	older instructional materials on some statistical analyses used in phonetics in our Statistics section
Linguistics 102/103 (General Phonetics)	Textbook: We use Rogers, The Sounds of Language, from 2000, due to its relatively low cost
Ling. 102/103	optional books sometimes ordered: Pullum & Ladusaw (1996) Phonetic Symbol Guide 2nd edition; Handbook of the International Phonetic Association (1999)
Ling. 103 (and Ling. 120)	The master reserves list: a standing list of books kept on 2-hour reserve in Powell Library, so that they remain behind the reserve desk rather than on the open shelves. These include phonetic descriptions of languages commonly studied for 103 term projects. With a professor's note, students can check out books for longer than 2 hours. Link to the library's reserve page (select this quarter's instructor, OR Linguistics, OR 103 Phonetics).
Ling. 102/103	UCLA Phonetics Lab Data (descended from the old "Sounds of the World's Languages" hypercard stacks), sound materials compiled by Peter and Jenny Ladefoged as a general resource, and to supply examples for the textbooks (5th edition of A Course in Phonetics and 1st edition of Vowels and Consonants) - archival teaching materials
Ling. 102/103	IPA Soundsearch application for searching for segments simultaneously in the Phonetics Lab Data and the Illustrations of the IPA. Gives you links to all the languages in these sources that contain a requested sound; if the language is in the Phonetics Lab Data, it takes you directly to the clickable webpage. Currently not available.
Ling. 102/103	Normal Speech Articulation (the "Iowa movie") VHS, DVD and film in the IML (retired film copy is in cabinet in General Lab) - but now freely available online at the Internet Archive
Ling. 102/103	"Human Speech Articulation" (Caldwell), 2002 DVD in the IML, is meant to replace "Normal Speech Articulation" but we prefer the original
Ling. 102/103 (and 104)	"Vocal Parts Module" and "The Ear": CDs and laminated cards about the larynx and the ear, on the shelf in the General Lab
Ling. 103	term project resources: sample handouts for the term project from Pat Keating, Spring 2007
Ling. 103	term project resources: Ethnologue
Ling. 103	term project resources: UCLA Language Materials Project
Ling. 103	term project resources: Illustrations of the IPA - map and list of languages
Ling. 102/103	Bruce Hayes's program to generate non-word production tests of equivalent difficulty (ask him for it)
Ling. 102/103	Pat Keating's use of Apple's text to speech in a class assignment
Ling. 102/103	transcription: Phonetics Lab's downloadable transcription exercises see below
Ling. 102/103	IPA: IPA homepage (including links to Sound files for Illustrations of the IPA)
Ling. 102/103	IPA: IPA's page for the IPA chart; 1-page pdf of chart (2015 Kiel version)
Ling. 102/103	IPA symbol pickers: westonruter; lexilogos; r12a; typeit
Ling. 102/103	IPA: CD "The Phonicon 1.0" by M. Stanley Whitley; an entire course and reference materials but the license does not permit putting it on the CLICC server for general student use; on the shelf in the General Lab
Ling. 102/103	IPA: Cascadilla's "IPA eyechart" (for fun)
Ling. 102/103	IPA: Cascadilla's IPA Bingo (English phonemes only) is in the teaching materials drawer
Ling. 102/103	English: Speech Accent Archive at George Mason University
Ling. 102/103	David Crystal's Original Pronunciation of Shakespeare site
Ling. 102/103	link to Esling's IPA chart iOS app
Ling. 102/103	link to Glasgow U's IPA chart with vocal tract ultrasound videos; USC real-time MRI IPA charts
Ling. 102/103	link to U. Iowa app on English, Spanish, Korean, Chinese
Ling. 102/103	Daniel Hall's interactive midsagittal section at the U Toronto
Ling. 403	information on graduate advising page about practical phonetics requirement
Ling. 102/103, 422	Bruce Hayes's practice spectrogram reading
Ling. 104/204 (Experimental Phonetics)	the usual textbook: K. Johnson (2012) Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics
Ling. 104	optional books sometimes ordered: Kent & Read (1992) The Acoustic Analysis of Speech (especially for its chapter on the use of a Klatt synthesizer); Ladefoged Elements of Acoustic Phonetics
Ling. 104
Ling. 104, 111	link to our page of Praat resources
Ling. 104	Sensimetrics's CD "Speech Production and Perception I" (copies of no-longer-available CD are in the lab's secret teaching materials drawer) (this one not in the IML, and copies formerly in the CLICC appear to be lost)
Ling. 104	Automatic Speech Recognition (Kai-Fu Lee/Apple Computer) 1993 video in the IML
Ling. 104	Speech Perception, 1997 ASA video by Pat Kuhl on speech perception in the IML
Ling. 104	2002 3-DVD set from Caldwell "Human Speech Acoustics", "Human Speech Articulation", "Human Speech: source-filter Theory", all in the IML
Ling. 104	"Now Hear This" 1994 video in IML on auditory system
Ling. 104	Sensimetrics's CD "Auditory Interactivies" (one copy only) - 58 lessons on signal analysis, acoustics, auditory perception.
Ling. 104	"Auditory Demonstrations", 1987CD from IPO/ASA, on the shelf in the General Lab
Ling. 104	Hartmut Traunmüller's History of speech synthesis
Ling. 104	Klatt's sound examples of history of speech synthesis hosted at Indiana U. for the Acoustical Society Sami Lemmetty's Text to speech demos (including Klatt's illustrations)
Ling. 104	Larry Rosenblum's McGurk demo at UC Riverside
Ling. 104	artificial larynx (great for illustrating source-filter theory) is in the cabinet in the lab kitchen
Ling. 104, 422	a Powerpoint file of spectrograms to be read from Pat Keating
Ling 104 (graduate)	articles we have read in seminar about measurements: Vallabha & Tuller 2002 on formants; Francis et al. 2003 on VOT
Ling. 111/211 (Intonation)	sample syllabus: Winter06
Ling. 111	ToBI materials at OSU
Ling. 111	Sun-Ah Jun's Korean ToBI at UCLA
Ling. 104, 422 (Practicum)	Rob Hagiwara's Monthly Mystery Spectrogram page at the U. of Manitoba
Ling. 204b (Speech Production)	1993 ASA Speech Production videos by Maureen Stone and others, in the IML (use those to put on reserve) and in the cabinet in the General Lab
Ling. 204b	information on using the lab's equipment for measuring aspects of speech production is in the Physiology section
Ling. 204b; Dissection	Peter Ladefoged et al. dissection manual (on-line version that replaces the earlier WPP #77), now housed on the Linguistics Department's Ladefoged page as well as in the online WPP series as #102
HC 16 (Singing voice)	the usual textbook: J. Sundberg (1987) The Science of the Singing Voice, Northern Illinois University Press
HC 16	optional books: G. Nair (1999) Voice - Tradition and Technology, Singular Publishing; R. Miller (1996) The Structure of Singing, Schirmer; I. Titze Principles of Voice Production
HC 16	"Human Speech: Source-filter Theory" (Caldwell) 2002 DVD in the IML; and similarly the series of DVDs called "The Singer's Voice", some of which overlap with the "Human Speech" series.