175-423 Advanced Phonetics

Formerly available as 175-035/323/423. Students who have completed 175-035 or 175-323/423 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

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 (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.

• have developed their computer literacy through the use of IT in experimental phonetic analyses of spoken language;

• have developed observation and attention to detail, through laboratory practicals and assignment and lab report preparation.

Written work totalling 4000 words for 3rd year students and 5000 words for 4th year students.

• K Johnson, Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. Blackwell.