Assessment

It is a requirement of this unit that you make a serious attempt to complete all assessment tasks. Failure to make a serious attempt 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% because assessment tasks demonstrate attainment of the learning outcomes.

Submission

Unless you are explicitly informed otherwise for a specific assignment, all assignments must be submitted via Turnitin.

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).
• Do not post solutions to assessment problems on any social media or online platforms

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.

Materials:

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: 

Attendance at practical workshop sessions is a necessary component of the unit. Practical workshop sessions are designed to help you develop the necessary skills and understanding required to meet the learning outcomes of the unit. The two major assignments and the exam require the ability to interpret acoustic data which you will learn in the pracs.

Text:

• Johnson, K. (2012) Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics, 3rd Edition Wiley-Blackwell: Cambridge

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.
• 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)
• Ladefoged, P. & Johnson, K. (2015) A Course in Phonetics, 7th Edition, Cengage Learning, Stamford.
• Stevens, K. N. (1998) Acoustic Phonetics, MIT Press: Cambridge (P221.5 .S74)