PHONETICS

Catalog description

Study of the manner, place, sound, and features of the production of Spanish sounds in normal and disorder speech. It will emphasize the Caribbean Spanish dialect. The course will present the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and apply the IPA symbols for the transcription of normal and disordered speech. The changes in meaning that occur as a result from the incorrect positioning of the articulators or the use of a redundant feature will be analyzed. The geometry of distinctive features will be discussed as it applies to possible changes in the selection of the phoneme. There will be intensive transcription of speech samples using the IPA symbols.