LING 310

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Phonetics

Linguistics College of Humanities

Course Description

General inventory of speech sounds possible in language, from both an acoustic and articulatory point of view.

When Taught

Fall

Min

3

Fixed

3

Fixed

3

Fixed

0

Title

Producing and Transcribing Sounds

Learning Outcome

Produce and transcribe approximately 100 of the sounds of the world’s languages and describe the articulatory and acoustic properties of these sounds.

Title

Phonetic Systems

Learning Outcome

Recognize the phonetic systems of several languages and how and why the languages are organized the way they are.

Title

Transcribing and Explaining Phonetic Processes

Learning Outcome

Transcribe and explain the phonetic processes common to languages of the world.

Title

Field Work in Phonetics

Learning Outcome

Perform field work in phonetics—learning to record and acoustically analyze phonetics data.