PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY 16.7 2nd and 3rd years Janet Fletcher. 12.5 points of Linguistics at first-year level or Departmental approval. First semester Two lectures and one tutorial a week. By the end of the subject, students should:
  • have developed skill in perceiving and articulating the speech sounds of the world's languages;
  • be able to apply these skills in transcribing the sounds of different languages;
  • have acquired general familiarity with some approaches to phonological analysis.
The sound distinctions occurring in human languages; basic articulatory, acoustic and auditory phonetics. Regular practical assignment problems and a project paper, totalling 5,000 words. Ladefoged A Course in Phonetics (2nd edition) The Principles of the International Phonetic Association. PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY 16.7 2nd and 3rd years Janet Fletcher. 12.5 points of Linguistics at first-year level or Departmental approval. First semester Two lectures and one tutorials a week. By the end of the subject, students should:
  • have developed skill in perceiving and articulating the speech sounds of the world's languages;
  • be able to apply these skills in transcribing the sounds of different languages;
  • have acquired general familiarity with some approaches to phonological analysis.
The sound distinctions occurring in human languages; basic articulatory, acoustic and auditory phonetics. Regular practical assignment problems and a project paper, totalling 5,000 words. Ladefoged A Course in Phonetics (2nd edition) The Principles of the International Phonetic Association.