Undergraduate Instructional Laboratory in Phonetics and Speech Science

经济、数字技术的广泛应用正在改变社会对机器和通信的看法。在未来，语音识别和分析工作将成为人机交互的重要组成部分。因此，在接下来的几年里，成功的语音学家和工程师将需要理解和欣赏语音产生和语音声学。传统上，工程师在语音产生方面的培训有限，而那些研究语言学和语音产生的人在语音声学方面的培训也很有限。该项目通过建立一个本科生语音学实验室来满足这些需求。该实验室是三门新课程的基础：一门入门课程，一门实验室入门课程，以及一门高级本科生分析课程。该项目的一个主要特点是扩大了与哈斯克尔印第安人民族大学的现有合作。言语-语言-听力部门一直在与哈斯克尔合作实施美洲原住民培训计划(NatP)。这个项目通过扩大基础科学的教学，建立在这种合作的基础上。除了两所大学的交叉课程外，这个项目还在开发使用英语和美洲原住民语言材料的实验室作业。这些材料是由NatP的学生与语言学系拥有母语专业知识的教员共同开发的。这种跨文化的合作为招收美国原住民学生从事与科学相关的职业带来了巨大的希望。

The widespread availability of economical, digital technology is changing how society views machines and communication. In the future, work in speech recognition and analysis will be an essential component of person-machine interaction. Thus, in the coming years, successful phonetics scientists and engineers will need to understand and appreciate speech production and speech acoustics. Traditionally, engineers have had limited instruction in speech production, while those studying linguistics and speech production have had limited training in speech acoustics. This project addresses these needs by developing an undergraduate phonetics laboratory. The laboratory serves as the basis for three new courses: an introductory lecture course, an introductory laboratory course, and an upper-level undergraduate analysis course. A key feature of this project is the expansion of an existing collaboration with Haskell Indian Nations University. The Department of Speech-Language-Hearing has been operating the Native American Training Program (NATP) in collaboration with Haskell. This project builds on that collaboration by expanding instruction in basic science. In addition to cross-listing courses at both universities, this project is developing laboratory assignments that utilize both English and Native American language materials. These materials are being developed by NATP students working with faculty from the Department of Linguistics who have expertise in Native languages. This cross-cultural collaboration holds great promise for recruitment of Native American students into science-related careers.