LNGS2620 - Phonetics (2009)

Undergraduate - Senior

Department: Linguistics School: School of Letters, Art and Media Semester(s): Semester 1 Year(s) offered: 2009 Credit Points: 6 Co-ordinator: Dr T Borowsky

UoS Description:

This unit will provide an introduction to the study of articulatory, acoustic and perceptual phonetics. Approaching the study of phonetics from both the theoretical and practical sides students will learn about the anatomical and physiological bases of the production of speech sounds. They will learn to produce and discern a wide range of the sounds observed in human languages and have practise in transcribing these sounds as well as applying these skills to the wider field of transcription, for example song texts/musical transcription. An introduction to the physical (acoustic) properties of speech sounds provides the basis for an understanding of what acoustic factors matter in speech perception.

This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.

UoS Learning Situations:

Two 1hour lectures and one 1hour tutorial/lab per week.

UoS Assessment:

One 500 word assessment on acoustic analysis. One 500 word assessment on transcription tasks. One 2500 word final exam. One 1000 word quiz.

Prerequisites:

Either (two of LNGS1001, LNGS1002, LNGS1003, LNGS1004, LNGS1005) or (Credit average in 12 Senior credit points from one of the foreign languages (French, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Arabic, Spanish, German, Latin, Modern Greek, Ancient Greek, Indonesian, Malay, Korean, Thai, Yiddish, Hebrew, Syriac, Aramaic, Sanskrit))

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