175-423 Advanced Phonetics

Completion of 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 students.

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.