The role of bottom-up confirmation in the phonemic restoration illusion. Auditory and phonetic coding of speech. Auditory coding, cues, and coherence in phonetic perception. Information for vowels in formant transitions. The class has a lecture-discussion format.
Material comes from a set of journal articles and book chapters.
Required readings are available at Lockwood Library on reserve. One project focuses on the recording and analysis of speech. Students will record a set of syllables and determine the formant frequencies of the syllables at specified points. The second project involves speech synthesis. Students will synthesize a set of vowels to precisely match particular tokens.