LING 553 A: Experimental Phonetics

Spring 2026
Meeting:
TTh 1:30pm - 3:20pm
SLN:
16257
Section Type:
Lecture
Joint Sections:
LING 453 A
Syllabus Description (from Canvas):

Welcome to LING 453/553: Experimental phonetics and laboratory phonology

Meeting Time: Lecture: T, Th
Zoom link
Instructor: Richard Wright
Email: rawright@uw.edu
Office hours: Thursday 12-1 Zoom link
Also by appointment
Useful links:

A note on lab-group names: each year I try to introduce a few historical figures in phonetics through the lab names. Each is a scholar who played an important role in the development of acoustic and laboratory methods in phonetics. This year we have 11 students so that's 4 lab-groups (3, 3, 3, 2). Here are names of the groups with links to the scholar's wikipedia page:

1 - Ilse Lehiste

2 - Alexander Melville Bell

3 - Eli Fischer-Jørgensen

4 - Daniel Jones

 

Course Readings (on reserve in the library)

Required: Johnson Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics 3rd edition 

Optional: On reserve in the library

Quantitative Methods in Linguistics, Keith Johnson

Acoustic Phonetics, Kenneth L. Stevens

Analyzing linguistic data: a practical introduction to statistics using R, Harold Baayen

Articulatory Phonetics, Bryan Gick

Accommodations

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Catalog Description:
Examines phonetic and phonological aspects of spoken language using experimental methods. Focuses on acoustic phonetics and speech perception. Significant time devoted to experimental design and hands-on data analysis techniques. Prerequisite: LING 550.
Credits:
5.0
Status:
Active
Last updated:
April 22, 2026 - 3:25 am