Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Lecturer (Speech Perception), Tutor, Coordinator
Titia Benders
Australian Hearing Hub; Office 3.501
Fridays 1pm-2pm (pre-register via e-mail)
Administration
Margaret Wood
Contact via 02 9850 8740
C5A-12 SECOND WAY 502
By appointment
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
39cp at 100 level or above including (6cp in LING units at 200 level including (LING210 or LING217))
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit is a detailed examination of speech perception and hearing, and provides training in the scientific methods required to expand knowledge in both domains. This unit is based around interactive lectures that present the theoretical content, and practical workshops that support students in completing research projects and proposals. Essential topics in speech perception include the (categorical) perception of segments and the perception and processing prosody. These are introduced from the perspective of monolingual adults, and further explored in a range of other populations, including bilinguals and listeners with hearing loss. The discussion of hearing covers the structure of the outer, middle and inner ear, the auditory nerve, the auditory brainstem and the auditory cortex, as well as the mechanisms of hearing and the physiology of the auditory system. A final focus of this unit is the psychoacoustics of hearing and speech perception.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
The assessment tasks have been designed to enable students to demonstrate critical thinking skills and problem-solving skills in the understanding of how the auditory system works, psychoacoustics and speech perception.
Completion of All Assessment Tasks:
All assessment tasks are compulsory. It is a requirement of this unit that students 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 total marks for completed tasks add up to more than 50%. In such cases, failure results from the learning outcomes of the unit not being met.
Assignment Submission:
All assignments must be submitted via turnitin. For each assignment, you MUST submit the assignment in pdf format. Add a footer to each page of the assignment, with page numbering, your name and student number, “SPH312 2019”, and the assignment number clearly marked. Assignments without a footer may be returned late, may be marked incorrectly, or may not be accepted at all. Students must keep a copy of each assignment as proof that it was completed and submitted in the event that a submitted assignment is misplaced or damaged.
Return of Marked Assignments:
Students’ marked assignments will, in general, be returned to them within 3 weeks of submission. Students may receive letter grades (and not marks) for their assignments. Any marks that students may receive, see, or infer from a Turnitin rubric are only approximations, and cannot for the basis for an appeal.
How to apply for late submission of an assignment
All requests for special consideration, including extensions, must be submitted via ASK.mq.edu.au and provide suitable supporting documentation.
Please make us aware of any circumstance that may affect your ability to complete an assessment on time. We are often able to help you manage your study load if we are aware of the situation before the assignment deadline. Requests for special consideration must always be submitted via ASK.mq.edu.au, within 5 days after the assignment deadline.
Late Assignment Submission
Late submissions without an extension will receive a penalty of 3% of the total mark available for the assessment task per day including weekend days (i.e. this is 3% of the total marks possible for the task – NOT 3% of the marks the student received. For example, if the assessment task is worth 100 marks and the student is two days late their mark for the task is reduced by 6 marks.)
Unit convenors have the discretion to determine whether or not students should fail a unit on the basis of lateness penalties alone if other learning outcomes of the unit have been met.
Appeals Against Grades
If a student has a problem with the mark given for a particular assessment, the student should contact the Unit Convenor directly. A request for a re-mark must be lodged within two weeks of the date of receipt of the assessment. If a remark is granted, the final mark can be sustained, raised or lowered.
If a student wishes to appeal against a final grade for a unit, then the student should lodge their appeal via ask@mq.edu.au.
http://students.mq.edu.au/support/complaints_appeals/appeals/
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Categorical Perception Report | 20% | No | Week 5 |
Experiment Proposal | 25% | No | Break week 2 |
DPOAE Practicum and Report | 20% | No | Week 12 |
Exam | 35% | No | Within Exam Period |
Due: Week 5
Weighting: 20%
Categorical Perception is a benchmark phenomenon in the study of speech perception. This practicum will introduce you to the experimental procedures involved in measuring Categorical Perception. You will be asked to interpret the data collected in the practicum and write a concise lab report outlining the findings. Submission of this assignment is compulsory.
Due: Break week 2
Weighting: 25%
Speech perception research, as all science, is an incremental process. This assessments invites you to formulate a follow-up experiment on a speech perception study published in an international scientific journal, in 2016 or 2017. You will be asked to write a concise experiment proposal, in which you 1) critically evaluate the original paper; 2) formulate a question and hypothesis; 3) outline appropriate methods and predicted results; 4) discuss implications of predicted outcomes. Submission of this assignment is compulsory.
Due: Week 12
Weighting: 20%
In this practicum, you will develop an understanding of the clinical use of distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs), the clinical equipment used to measure them and the procedure undertaken for this. You will also develop an appreciation for physiological and non-physiological factors that could result in an absent evoked emission. Submission of this assignment is compulsory.
Due: Within Exam Period
Weighting: 35%
The aim of the final exam is to assess the learning outcomes related to hearing science and psychoacoustics. This exam will be 3 hours in duration.
The following website provides details of the university examination policy: http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/examination/policy.html Only in exceptional circumstances will supplementary exams be available. Request for supplementary exams are submitted as special consideration to ask@mq.
Students will have access to weekly lectures, weekly readings on Leganto, weekly tutorials, and the resources on the iLearn page to support their learning.
All required readings and lecture materials are assessable content for the exam, and provide the necessary content knowledge for successful completion of the assignments.
Tutorials are specifically designed to develop the skills required for successful completion of the assignments.
We welcome all your questions during lectures, during tutorials, and during the 15 minutes before and after lectures/tutorials. Please never hesitate to come talk to us! We strictly adhere to posting all written student questions and answers on iLearn. Our aim in doing this is providing all students with access to the same information. You can ask questions directly on the iLearn discussion fora, for your peers, tutor, or lecturer to answer. Questions of a personal nature are of course excluded from this procedure. Please contact Titia Benders (the unit convenor) directly if you have any personal questions or concerns.
1. Categorical Perception
2. Categorisation Boundaries
3. Second Language Speech Perception
4. The Perception of Prosody
5. Speech Perception by Listeners with Hearing Loss
6. First Language Acquisition of Speech Perception.
7. The Ear
8. Cochlear Anatomy and Physiology
9. Cochlear Non-Linearity
10. Auditory Nerve - Anatomy and Physiology
11. Stimulus encoding and Central Auditory Nervous Pathway
12. Auditory Cortex, Localisation, and the Acoustic Reflex Pathway
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We welcome all your questions during lectures, during tutorials, and during the 10 minutes before and after lectures/tutorials. Please never hesitate to come talk to us! We strictly adhere to posting all written student questions and answers on iLearn. Our aim in doing this is providing all students with access to the same information. You can ask questions directly on the iLearn discussion fora, for your peers, tutor, or lecturer to answer (recommended option). You may also e-mail your lecturer or tutor, with the request that they post the question (anonymously) with the answer on iLearn. Questions of a personal nature are of course exclude from this procedure. Please contact Titia Benders (the unit convenor) directly if you have any personal questions or concerns.
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Learning outcome 4 has been changed from:
4. Analyse, interpret and report on audiometric data to engage with theoretical issues relating to clinical assessment techniques
to
4. Analyse, interpret and report on clinical auditory data to engage with theoretical issues relating to clinical assessment techniques
Changes have gone through the University's Quality Assurance mechanism (FSQC) for approval.