Course talk:PHYS341/2018/project/mouth

I thought this page was an interesting read!

Physics Content I felt like the physics content was explained really well. I felt as though when you were explaining the formants, maybe adding some more diagrams would be a good idea, just so the read has a better picture about the formants.

Clear Explanations I felt as though everything was explained with detail and very specific. Great Job! As a reader, it was easy to follow and understand concepts.

Structure and Length I felt as though the structure of the page was well-organized and length of the whole page is good. However, I feel that bolding your main headings would be a good idea. As well as having a title as the "Mouth" or something along those lines would be better for the reader to understand the page is about the mouth.

Writing Style The writing style was easily understandable and good. Felt like I was able to follow everything.

Diagrams and Photographs I believe having photos of the mouth with labels and diagrams about the physics, explaining the mouth are good. However, I feel the page is could have some more diagrams to make the page the more appealing for the reader to want to know more about what this page is about.

Overall this page was a good read!

This was a super interesting page and I really enjoyed reading about it, good job!

Physics Content

The section on the source-filter model was really informative. It included things that we had learned in class (Helmholtzoltz resonators) but explained it well enough that most people would understand what was being said.

My only suggestion for this would be in the Perception of Speech section. When you are talking about Formants, it would be nice to include some example pictures of what the different vowel formants look like or how you can see the difference between the first and second formant. I know that Praat is a pretty easy software to record and then look at the formants. You could maybe even just show the formants of a minimal pair like ‘pat and pet’ and demonstrate how the formants show up differently because of the different vowels. Overall though the explanation of what the different formants show us was very clear and interesting.

Clear Explanations

I found everything to be really well explained and as a whole it made a lot of sense.

In the phonetics of speech section it was helpful when you were describing Plosives, Affricatives, Fricatives and Approximates that you included the sounds that were plosives, affricatives etc. but it might be more informative if you included all the sounds that fell under each category just for the sake of consistency (Ex. Plosives had lots of example sounds while Fricatives did not)

The inclusion of the IPA chart (as well as the vowel chart) was helpful because it reinforced what was being said about the place of articulation of vowels and the organization of consonants on the IPA chart

Structure and Length

The way the page was organized was easy to follow and it was just the right length (about 1300 words)

Writing Style

The writing was clear and concise with no typos or grammatical errors that I noticed.

The only thing I might change a bit is It seemed like there was a bit of overlap in the phonetics of speech and the phonology of speech sections when talking about vowels. Maybe find a way to differentiate or not repeat information as much or only talk about it in one section.

Diagrams and Photographs

It was good that you included the drawing of the three stages of the sound wave in the source-filter model and because it is your own work it would get full marks.

The thing that is missing is a photo that is your own work though i’m not entirely sure what that may look like for this project? Maybe just including formant measurement photos that you have taken on your own would count?

Either way the photos that were included were relevant and helpful and the captions on the pictures were informative enough to let me know what I was looking at and help me better understand what was being said.