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Experimental Phonetics

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Academic Calendar 2024/2025

Please, bring your headphones to the class.

  1. 2025-02-27: Introduction to Experimental Phonetics
  2. 2025-03-06: Introduction to Experimental Phonetics
  3. 2025-03-13: Phonetics as a scientific study of speech - original slides by Prof. Agnieszka Wagner
  4. 2025-03-20: The vocal tract and initiation of speech: anatomy and physiology - original slides by Prof. Agnieszka Wagner
  5. 2025-03-27: Airstream mechanisms and phonation types - original slides by Prof. Agnieszka Wagner
  6. 2025-04-03: Students' own work on their experiments and the final reports: annotation on word, syllable and phone levels
  7. 2025-04-10: Students' own work on their experiments and the final reports: annotation on word, syllable and phone levels
  8. 2025-04-24: Shift of pitch contour and other modifications

    1. Read in sound file (WAV format) to Praat.
    2. Mark with the cursor the Sound file from the Object list and choose from the right menu: Manipulate → To Manipulation.
    3. Select with the cursor the Manipulation file and go to: View & Edit.
    4. On the edited Manipulation file mark the whole contour with the cursor and from the top menu select: Pitch → Shift pitch frequencies.
    5. In the pop-up menu write the amount of frequency shift (the default unit is Hertz).
    6. Close the window with the edited Manipulation file.
    7. Select the Manipulation file from the Object list and choose: Get resynthesis (overlap-add) from the right menu.
    8. Save the new Sound file, for example by giving it the _synth extension to differentiate it from the original Sound file.

    Please, experiment also with functions on the button Convert: Lengthen (overlap-add), Deepen band modulation, Change gender.