Phonetics and Phonology

Catalog description

Offered autumn. This course examines the gestural and acoustic properties of speech sounds (phonetics) and their representation and organization in particular languages (phonology). Students are introduced to the International Phonetic Alphabet and the use of spectrograms in the study of phonetics. Various theoretical concepts and frameworks to conduct phonological analyses are introduced using data from the world’s languages. The knowledge and skills obtained from this course may be applied to speech pathology, dialectology, neuroscience, language learning, and further study of linguistic theory. This course co-convenes with LING 471 . Graduate students taking LING 571 will complete additional requirements and their work will be of a more advanced nature. Level: Graduate