LING 590P Intro 9/8/2026

Roadmap

• Introductions
• Syllabus walk-through
• Assignments
• Speech technology and prosody

Assignments

• Reading:

  • Barnes, Mixdorff and Niebuhr (2020) in Google drive, due 9/14
    • This is a great overview of topics we'll touch on in class

  • Optional: Arvaniti 2020 Phonetics of Prosody (especially Section 5)

  • Liberman and Pierrehumbert (1984) in Google drive, due 9/16 5pm

    • This is one of the few explicit models (and a classic) of F0 contours in intonation in autosegmental-metrical theory
      

• Ward and Levow lectures:

  • I'm assuming people know Videos 4-10, watch on your own for review
  • Watch Videos 1-3, and 24 (Speech Synthesis) before next week
    

• To think about: what model might be of interest to present?

Speech technology and prosody

• Nigel Ward/Gina-Anne Levow prosody/speech technology 2021 tutorials
• Mixdorff 2002
• The Common Prosody Platform