Clinical Phonetics

Catalog description

This course will introduce you to the science of speech sounds. You will begin by learning the anatomy of the speech system. Then you will study the differences between vowels and consonants in the way they are produced and perceived. You will learn a new system of transcribing sounds called the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). This is a universal system that will allow you to code any language. And finally, since this is a course on clinical phonetics you will learn how variations in speech sounds occur and how to transcribe them.