LING 310
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
Grade Rule
Grade Rule 8: A, B, C, D, E, I (Standard grade rule)
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.
