SPRING 2014 SPA 4011 COURSE OUTLINE

Week of 6 January 13 January Topic Reading

Understanding Sound Waves

Course Orientation/Pressure Waves Pressure Waves in Space and Time Sinusoidal Motion 317-322 323-330

20 January

Ratios, Logarithms and Antilogs Web sites listed in Assignment Solving Logarithmic Problems section of course web page MLK Day comment and response due by 11:59 p.m. 20 January Decibels Exam 30 January

27 January

Acoustic Analysis of Sound

3 February Complex Periodic Waves Complex Aperiodic Events Lab report 1 due 3 February Logarithm and Decibel Problem Sheet due 7 February Resonance Filtering and Resonance Acoustic Analysis Systems Acoustic Speech Analysis 330-337

10 February

337-355

17 February

439-463 463-472

24 February Digitizing Sound Exam 2 27 February

Speech Acoustics
3 March Acoustic Theory of Vowel Production Vowel Acoustics Lab report 2 due 3 March 357-380 381-399

10 March 17 March

SPRING BREAK!
Vowel Acoutic Data Acoustic Theory of Consonant Production Consonant Acoustic Data Acoustic Characterictics of Prosody Exam 3 3 April 473-493 401-438 493-536 536-548

24 March 31 March

Speech Perception

7 April

Psychoacoustics Lab report 3 due 7 April Phoneme Perception Theories of Speech Perception 549-578

14 April 21 April

Exam Week Lab report 4 due 28 April Peer evaluations due 30 April Final Exam - Friday 2 May 12:30-2:30