A New Golden Age of Phonetics?

Explore the evolving landscape of phonetics research in this hour-long lecture delivered at Johns Hopkins University's Center for Speech and Language Processing. Delve into Mark Liberman's analysis of contemporary developments in phonetic science and discover how technological advances, computational methods, and interdisciplinary approaches are potentially ushering in a transformative era for the field. Examine the intersection of traditional phonetic theory with modern digital tools and data analysis techniques that are expanding our understanding of speech sounds, acoustic properties, and linguistic variation. Learn about emerging methodologies in speech research, the impact of large-scale corpus studies, and how computational linguistics is reshaping phonetic investigation. Consider the implications of these developments for both theoretical phonetics and practical applications in speech technology, language documentation, and linguistic analysis.