V61.0011 Sound and Language
Prof. Lisa Davidson
Fall 2005
This course is intended to introduce students to the study of linguistic phonetics. We will focus on both articulatory phonetics (how the lungs, vocal tract, tongue and mouth are used to produce speech) and acoustic phonetics (the acoustic properties of speech and how they can be examined by translating them into the visual domain). The end of the course will include an introduction to phonology, which is the study of how speech sounds are organized in different languages. In order to learn articulatory and acoustic phonetics and transcription, we will use data both from English and from other languages spoken around the world.
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