Phonetics

This course introduces students to the study of phonetics, the branch of linguistics that studies the sounds of human speech and their classifications. The course is an introduction to the articulation and basic acoustics of speech sounds used in the world's languages, including English in comparison with other languages. This course includes extensive practice in speech-sound perception, phonetic transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and spectrogram reading through Wavesurfer and PRAAT or other software programs.