Assessment

It is a requirement of this unit that you complete all assessment tasks. Failure to complete all assessment tasks may result in failure in the whole unit even if the marks on the completed tasks total more than 50%.

Submission

Unless you are explicitly informed otherwise for a specific assignment, all assignments must be submitted in hardcopy to the assignment box in the C3A Undergraduate office and also submitted via Turnitin.

For each hardcopy assignment, you MUST fill in and include the Linguistics Department cover sheet. Assignments will not be accepted unless they have the cover sheet.

Extension Requests and Lateness Policy

Any request for an extension must be provided with associated documentation via ask@mq before the assignment deadline.

Unless you have negotiated an extension based on documented evidence of significant disruption to your studies, a penalty of 5% of the total marks for the assignment per day (including 2 days for weekends) will apply to late submissions.

Unless otherwise negotiated, assignments will not be accepted at all AFTER the date on which the marked assignments are returned to students in the unit.

Academic Honesty

As a good student, you are responsible for ensuring academic integrity practices are followed at all times. Your first step is to read the University's Academic Honesty Policy, and make sure you know what constitutes good practice. Then make sure you know how to reference and cite correctly. There are other practices we need to consider, and one of these is the potential for collusion.

Informal study groups are encouraged as a good way to assist your learning, but please remember that all your independently assessed assignments must be totally independently completed. Unless you are doing a group project where each member contributes to producing one piece of work, for which you get the one mark, using part or all of another person's work constitutes collusion and breaches the University's Academic Honesty policy.

What is collusion?

This is the unauthorised presentation of group work as your own.  It may involve

• Working with someone to provide one piece of work
• Allowing others to share your assignment answer or copy your work
• Using the assignment answer or work of another student (past or present) with or without their permission. It is collusion even if only small parts of the assignment are used
• Allowing others to edit and write your work
• Editing or writing the work of another student
• Offering to do work for another student or seeking payment for preparing academic work for someone else

How can you avoid collusion?

• Do not share your findings or answers to an assignment
• Do not use another student’s case studies, findings or ideas about an assignment
• Do not ask another student for a copy of their assignment
• Do not share your current or past assignments with another student (whether to “look at the structure” or any other reason).

It is recommended that you complete this Academic Integrity Module:

Academic honesty is considered to be extremely important by the Department of Linguistics and the University. All assignments are submitted to Turnitin and compared with other assignments (past and present) and with content on the internet. Serious breaches of academic honesty may result in failure of the unit or in extreme cases suspension or expulsion from the university.

Grading

Academic Senate has a set of guidelines on the distribution of grades across the range from fail to high distinction.  Your final result will include one of these grades plus a standardised numerical grade (SNG). 

The following descriptions apply to assessment grades:

HD (85-100) High Distinction: denotes performance which meets all unit objectives in such an exceptional way and with such marked excellence that it deserves the highest level of recognition.

D (75-84) Distinction: denotes performance which clearly deserves a very high level of recognition as an excellent achievement in the unit.

Cr (65-74) Credit: denotes performance which is substantially better than would normally be expected of competent students in the unit.

P (50-64) Pass: denotes performance which satisfies unit objectives.

F (0-49) Fail: denotes that a candidate has failed to complete a unit satisfactorily.

Please note that

1. The above grades and descriptions apply to undergraduate degrees, postgraduate coursework degrees, diploma and graduate certificate programs
2. Marks assigned in assignments are raw marks. These are subsequently converted into Standard Numerical Grades (SNG) in order to determine letter grades for the unit.

The SNG which you receive as the final result for the unit may not be the same as the total of your marks for each assessment item. Under the Senate guidelines, results may be scaled to ensure that there is a degree of comparability across the university, so that units with the same past performances of their students should achieve similar results.

The process of scaling does not change the order of marks among students.

The learning and teaching strategies used in this Unit are structured around an extensive set of interactive text, image and audio based online materials as well as lecture presentations (recorded lectures and associated resources), readings and workshop participation. The unit iLearn site contains details of the timetable of topics with links to the relevant materials. Interaction with ilearn discussion facility is expected. Students MUST use ilearn to access important messages.

Attendance at workshops is compulsory. Failure to attend 80% of workshops without sufficient documentation will result in failure of the unit.

Text:

• Ladefoged, P. & Johnson, K. (2015) A Course in Phonetics, 7th Edition, Cengage Learning, Stamford.

Reading List:

• Clark, J., Yallop, C. & Fletcher, J. (2007) An introduction to phonetics and phonology, (3rd Edition), Oxford:Blackwell (especially Chapter 7, "The Acoustics of Speech Production")
• Cox, F. (2012) Australian English: Pronunciation and Transcription, Cambridge UP: Melbourne.
• Fant, G. (1960) Acoustic Theory of Speech Production, Mouton, s'Gravenhage.
• Fant, G. (1973) Speech Sounds and Features, MIT Press, Cambridge.
• Fant, G. (2004) Speech Acoustics and Phonetics: Selected Writings, Kluwer Academic, Boston, Mass.
• Fry, D.B. (1979) The Physics of Speech, Cambridge UP: Cambridge, (QP306.F8/1979)
• Harrington J. & Cassidy S. (1999) Techniques in Speech Acoustics, Kluwer: Dordrecht, especially chapters 1-4. (P221.5.H37/1999)
• Gick, B., Wilson, I. & Derrick, D. (2013) Articulatory Phonetics, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester.
• Hardcastle, W., Laver, J. & Gibbon, F. (2010) (Eds.) The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences, John Wiley, Chichester.
• Harrington, J. (2010) Phonetic Analysis of Speech Corpora, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester.
• Johnson, K. (1997) Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics, Blackwell: Cambridge (P221.5 .J64/1997)
• Kent R. D. & Read, C. (2002) Acoustic Analysis of Speech. Singular: Albany
• Ladefoged, P. (1962) Elements of Acoustic Phonetics, U. Chicago Press: Chicago (QP306.L33)
• Stevens, K. N. (1998) Acoustic Phonetics, MIT Press: Cambridge (P221.5 .S74)

Lecture Timetable: (FC = Felicity Cox, TB = Titia Benders, AS = Anita Szakay)