Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) as well as two buildings that received the National American Institute of Architect’s Design Honor Awards. Her projects include the first multi-family structure in the country awarded the gold certification by the U.S. Ling has taken about 60 development projects totalling 1,400 units from acquisition through entitlement, financing, construction, marketing and building operations. She is currently working on promoting a range of housing choices in Los Angeles transit station areas, land use incentives for affordable housing, and a dedicated funding source in California. Among the many issues she has affected, highlights include reforming the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to streamline affordable and urban in-fill housing production, negotiating the California Mello Act implementation in Los Angeles, running a successful voter initiative to authorize affordable housing development under Article 34 of the California Constitution, passing local ordinances giving land use incentives and protections for affordable housing development projects, and advocating for more and better targeted financial resources in California’s tax credit and bond-funded housing programs. “And during the two years I attended school here, my love of cities blossomed, along with a growing awareness of work opportunities that could fulfill my emotional, spiritual and creative needs. “įollowing graduation, Ling used her hands-on experience to improve public policy, legislation and government regulations. “My intellectual interest in the nexus between social theory and practice led me to the UCLA Urban Planning Department,” Ling continues. I love working with my hands and building things.” When I was 12, I designed and built a house for my dog from scratch.
Ling recalls: “My father was a doctor by vocation and carpenter/cabinet maker by avocation. Ling currently works as a real estate advisor and policy analyst in urban planning.Īs a child, Ling developed a passion for carpentry and building that later inspired her to pursue a career in urban planning. I suggest you also work through some of Edward Flemming's Praat basics tutorial to familiarize yourself with the software.Īdam Albright's guide to features lists and defines all of the phonological features we'll be using in this class (and more).Joan Ling MA UP ’82 has been named 2014 Alumna of the Year by the department of Urban Planning.
#LING UCLA PRAAT SOFTWARE#
You must download this software for the acoustics section of the class.
#LING UCLA PRAAT FREE#
Praat, free phonetics software from Paul Boersma and David Weenink. These are made available by the Summer Institute of Linguistics, one of the world's largest Christian missionary organizations. I also recommend the unicode keyboard utility available on the same website. This is a font that you can use to produce phonetic characters in your word processor (in case anybody uses LaTeX, you'll need to download the tipa package instead). The exercises here on tone, stress, and length will be less relevant to this class, but feel free to go ahead and try them anyway (they're really hard!).įree unicode IPA font from SIL. The best way to learn to recognize speech sounds is by doing, not by reading (of course, reading is also necessary in order to *understand* what the sounds are). These are exercises posted for an introductory class at UCLA. IPA transcription practice from Bruce Hayes. A neat, simple interactive animation that allows you to manipulate various parts of the vocal tract in order to better understand the sounds that we're learning about. Interactive sagittal section from Daniel Currie Hall. Allows you to hear all sounds in the IPA chart. Interactive IPA chart from Keith Johnson's website for 'A Course in Phonetics'.
Even better would be to practice listening to and producing these sounds with the interactive IPA chart linked below. 1) will make the class much, much easier. Memorizing parts of it (particularly the pulmonic consonants and vowels on p. You will need to be able to read this chart easily. IPA chart from the International Phonetic Association.
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