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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.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Dr Janet Fletcher

Prerequisites

37.5 points of second/third year linguistics and applied linguistics including 175-014 Phonetics for third year. 175-014 Phonetics and admission to the Postgraduate Diploma or Fourth Year Honours in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics for fourth year.

Semester

1 (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 of semester

Subject Description

This subject involves the instrumental study of spoken language. Students should become familiar with basic techniques commonly used to analyse the acoustics and articulation of sound sequences, and prosody (e.g. 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 (e.g. speech synthesis); and second language acquisition.

Assessment

Three practical assignments totalling 4000 words for third year. Four practical assignments totalling 5000 words for fourth year.

Prescribed Texts

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


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