LIGN210 - Phonetics
Fall Quarter 2004
Instructor: Amalia
Arvaniti
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Requirements and
grading
This course involves is a great deal of new terms that you need
to memorize and a lot of reading. You are advised to study and review regularly,
as each class builds on terms and notions covered in previous classes.
Assignments will be handed out in installments every week; you
are advised to do each part of each assignment as soon as it is handed out,
rather than wait to do all parts just before the assignment is due.
Late assignments will not be accepted (unless there is a very good reason for being late).
Grades: the grades will be
not be curved unless it becomes necessary for a particular assignment
3 assignments: 45% (15% each)
Class paper:
55%
TOTAL 100%
Class papers: All students will
do projects involving the collection of phonetic data (acoustic or articulatory
data, or responses to auditory stimuli) and will write a final paper on their
project. Due to the size of the class, the projects will be collaborative, with
two or three students working together on each project. These projects could be
based on an original idea or they could be a replication of an older study
(with improvements to experimental design where appropriate); it is also
possible for the class paper to be a review paper on a particular topic.
A general note on
collaboration, acknowledgements and plagiarism: you are encouraged
to work in groups, and to discuss your project not only with your partner(s)
but with other students as well. However, all assignments (other than the class
paper) should be your own work (class papers should be based on collaborative work between co-authors).
Any help or contribution from others should be acknowledged in a special
acknowledgments section of your work (such contribution could be an idea that
changed the course of your research paper, help with data collection or
analysis, etc.). Please also note that any time you use the ideas or words of
someone else you should explicitly acknowledge the source in a citation and in
the references. This includes material you found on the web (in which case, you
can provide the website in the references).