Waves, Spectra, and Pendula Acoustics by Computer

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Michael Hammond
Evan Norris

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A required course in the major sequence in linguistics at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee is the Phonetics Practicum (550-370). This course has two components. One trains students to produce and transcribe speech sounds from the languages of the world. The second component of the course teaches students about the auditory, articulatory, and acoustic bases of speech. This latter goal necessarily involves exposing students to certain basic principles of a more physical-mathematical nature than the typical liberal arts major is accustomed to dealing with. For example, students are exposed to basic concepts of acoustics like frequency, amplitude, resonance, harmonics plus the basics of speech synthesis, source-filter theory, etc. Needless to say, these are difficult concepts to grasp for a student whose mathematics and physics background is limited. 


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