Phonetic Analysis: Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics

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This course is an exploration of phonetic analysis with a focus on acoustic and auditory phonetics (the properties of sound waves, particularly speech sounds, and how hearers perceive sounds given the constraints of the human auditory system). We will focus on how acoustic and auditory phonetics can enhance our understanding of sounds in languages around the world, and how it can inform analytical methods such as those used in sociolinguistics, linguistic field methods, and laboratory-based research involving sounds. This course will include training in specialized acoustic analysis software.