LING 310 Phonetics Units: 3.00
This course provides a foundation in the study of speech sounds. The focus is on articulatory phonetics, how to classify and transcribe different sounds of speech according to their articulatory features. The course also offers an introduction to acoustic phonetics and feature geometry theory.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (LING 100/6.0 or [LING 101/3.0 and LING 102/3.0]) or permission of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Read and transcribe English in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), and be familiar with reading and transcribing other languages in IPA.
- Record, transcribe and acoustically analyze speech.
- Classify and transcribe speech according to its articulatory features.
- Use Audacity and Praat software.
- Understand basic acoustic phonetics, including reading simple spectrograms.