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 175-423 Instrumental Phonetics

Note

Available as 175-323 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 3rd and 4th year

Prerequisites

Students must have completed "Phonetics and Phonology" 175-210/310.

Semester

2

Contact

One lecture and two hours of laboratory sessions a week

Subject Description

The instrumental study of articulatory and acoustic phonetics, and speech synthesis. The course looks at how and why language sounds the way it does, and how we learn to perceive and produce it accurately. Students learn the major techniques of instrumental analysis of speech, including articulatory and acoustic analysis.

Assessment

Three assignments totalling 5000 words at third-year level and 6000 words at fourth-year level.

Prescribed Texts

Lieberman and Blumstein: Speech Physiology, Speech Perception and Acoustic Phonetics.

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