16.7 3rd and 4th years Janet Fletcher. 175-210/310 Phonetics and Phonology. Second semester Two lectures and two hours of laboratory sessions a week. By the end of the subject, students should:

• have gained an insight into how and why language sounds the way it does, and how we learn to perceive and produce it accurately;
• have acquired skills in the major techniques of instrumental analysis of speech, including articulatory and acoustic analysis.

The instrumental study of articulatory and acoustic phonetics; speech synthesis. Three assignments totalling 5,000 words.