Phonetics

Catalog description

This course is an introduction to phonetics and transcription as it relates to the field of speech-language pathology practice. Students will learn principles of speech articulation and acoustic features of vowels and consonants as well as the symbols for transcription. Students will begin the transcription process by analyzing and assessing speech across the lifespan in Standard American English, nonstandard dialects, and disordered speech using the International Phonetic Alphabet.