Articulatory Phonetics Final Project Overview

The final project for Articulatory Phonetics is a research proposal for studying some vocal behavior. It has four parts: the first three parts build toward the last, which is an aggregation of all the work done so far (plus a litle bit more). After each part is submitted, there's a peer review assignment and a revise-and-resubmit assignment to help students improve.

This project guides students through the process of identifying a research question, developing hypotheses and predictions related to that question, and constructing an experiment to test those hypotheses by looking for the predicted results. Along the way, I emphasize the importance of working with a consultant who is an expert in the vocal behavior being studied and a member of the community of people who do that behavior: that working closely with a consultant helps the research benefit both the scientist and the community participating in the research; and, it encourages the scientist to treat the experiment participants as experts whose experiences are crucial to research rather than as test subjects.

You can see the assignments for each part of the project below.

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Summative assessment