SyllabusLIN 393P: Topics in Phonology (Laboratory Phonology)Scott MyersCAL 418Office hours: TTH 9:15 - 10:45E-mail: [email protected]: 471-9032Course outlineThe course has two parallel and interdependent goals:• to take you step-by-step through the process of planning, running and presentingexperimental work on speech• to practice critical reading of experimental workTrack 1. How to do experimental workYou will design, run and report results from an experiment dealing with any aspect ofspeech. We will go through each step before you do it.• Preparation (Weeks 1-2): Defining a topic, designing the experiment, humansubjects review• Measurement procedures and basic statistical reasoning (Weeks 5-8)• Oral and written presentation of experimental results (Weeks 14-15)You will begin running the experiment as soon as you have approval from the humansubjects IRB.Track 2. How to read experimental workWe will read an article for almost every week. This semester, the papers will all focus onf0, tone and intonation. I will provide background information on each paper, but the goalwill be for you to develop the ability to critically evaluate experimental work. Is thehypothesis motivated? Does the experiment provide a fair test of the hypothesis? Do theresults support the hypothesis?GradesThe grade for the course will be based on oral presentations, and a final paper:• 10%: Exercises• 10%: 1 oral presentation of the results from your study (in the last week of class:May 1 and 3)• 80%: 1 short paper presenting the results from your study (due a week after theend of classes: May 11)The exercises will include preliminary stages of the project, such as an experimentaldesign, a materials list, and a human subjects proposal. They will also include practice intoBI transcription and statistical analysis. The grades for these exercise will be pass/fail,i.e. this portion of the course grade will depend just on how many of the exercises weresubmitted on time and were acceptable.The oral presentation and the short paper will be evaluated by the same criteria we willevaluate the papers we read: how clearly the hypothesis is stated and motivated, whetherthe experiment provides a fair test of the hypothesis, whether the results are presentedclearly, and whether the interpretation of the results is fair and well-supported. It will notmatter whether the results end up supporting your original