To-Do--10/24/2012

To-Do:

• Wake-up: 9:30 am
• Done
• Shower, get dressed, check email (1 hour)
• Done
• TA's office hours to talk about Phonetics project (1 hour)
• Done
• Italian midterm (1 hour)
• Done
• Lunch (.5 hours)
• Done
• Italian Tutorial (1 hour)
• Done
• Read ahead in Italian (1 hour)
• Done
• Start Chapter 9 of Phonetics (1 hour)
• Done. It's about sounds that aren't classified as strictly vowels but have vowel-like properties. These include nasalized and rhoticized vowels. 
• Do some of Phonetics homework (.5 hours)
• Done
• Start chapter 3 homework of Italian (.5 hours)
• Done
• Play around with Ardour and see how it compares to Praat and Audacity (1 hour)
• Didn't get to this
• Dinner (1 hour)
• Done
• Praat practice (1 hour)
• Done. I did more practice on measuring things like pitch and formants and intensity. 
• Python programming (1 hour)
• Done. I did some practice on creating dictionaries and extracting information from those dictionaries
• Accents book (1 hour)
• Done. Read about Italian accents and how they vary from dialect to dialect. For example, in Rome, they have different diphthongs than in other parts of the country. An interesting aspect about Italians is that the "d" consonant is often substituted by a "th" sound, whereas it's usually the reverse for most accents. 
• Sleep: 12 am/1:30 am