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 175-035 Advanced Phonetics

Note

Formerly available as 175-323/423. Students who have completed 175-323/423 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

3rd and 4th year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Dr Janet Fletcher

Prerequisites

Students must have completed Phonetics 175-210/310 (175-014).

Semester

Not Offered (view timetable)

Contact

Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour laboratory class per week. There will be no lab sessions in the first or the middle week

Subject Description

The instrumental study of spoken language; basic techniques commonly used to analyse the acoustics and articulation of sound sequences, and prosody (eg. stress and intonation); the relationship of these techniques to current models of speech production and perception, and laboratory phonology; 'applied' instrumental phonetics, including spoken language engineering (eg. speech synthesis), and second language acquisition.

Assessment

Three practical assignments totalling 4000 words for 3rd-year. Four practical assignments totalling 5000 words for 4th-year.

Prescribed Texts

  • Lieberman & Blumstein, Speech Physiology, Speech Perception and Acoustic Phonetics. OUP.
  • K Johnson, Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. Blackwell.


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