Meeting This Saturday

TAPT-ers and Friends,

Here’s a reminder about our meeting Saturday, October 3^rd. We’ll meet at 8:30 am in room PAS 218 on the U of A Campus. New and old members welcome, as well as a guest you think might be interested in the topic.

The PAS building is on 4^th Street between Park and Highland. ONLY THE WEST DOOR TO THE BUILDING WILL BE OPEN.  A parking map is here: Parking map. I usually suggest parking at the 6^th Street garage, off 5^th Street,  or the Tyndall Garage, off Euclid. Both are a quick walk to PAS.

The U of Arizona Physics Department will supply breakfast, and it’s always delicious. Thanks Physics Dept!

Our speaker is Dr. Brad Story from the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences.  Here is his abstract:

Spoken communication relies on humans’ ability to generate sound waves with precise, complex structure that encodes the vowels and consonants of a language. The human sound production system utilizes vibratory and turbulent sound sources to initiate pressure waves that propagate through the vocal tract, which are the airspaces of the trachea, pharynx, mouth, and nasal passages. This talk will give overview of how the vibratory characteristics of the vocal folds,and the acoustic filtering properties of the vocal tract interact to produce the sounds of speech.

I’m sure it will be a great talk – it sounds super interesting. Please join us for our kick-off meeting.

If you have any questions, please email. Hope to see a lot of people there.

Karie