Syllabus
1) Study of voice across academic disciplines. What is voice/ voice quality?
2) Producing a voice and controlling its sound.
3) Physical characteristics and the voice: Can we hear what a speaker looks like?
4) Recognizing speaker identity from voice: Theoretical and ethological perspectives and a psychological model.
5) Linguistic uses of voice quality: How voice signals linguistic and pragmatic aspects of communication.
6) Vocal communication of emotion and attitude.
7) A theoretical framework for vocal function: Models of communication.
8) Voice in advertising and business area.
Annotation
Whenever we speak, our voices convey information about us as individuals. Speakers may sound young, excited, or as if they are ill or bearing a secret; they can also reveal whether they are male of female or what region they come from. As listeners, we tend to make impressions of speakers based on their voice signals; however, the judgements we make are not always necessarily accurate.
The course is dedicated to anyone interested in the spoken voice as one of the primary means by which we project our identity and achieve our goals in social interaction from both the speech production and perception perspectives, including auditory analyses of speech samples.