Department of Linguistics
SLP801 Fundamentals of Speech Science
Availability : |
X1 |
Credit Points |
4 |
Convenor(s) |
Felicity Cox |
Unit Web Site |
SLP801 unit web site [leaving main website] |
Unit Outline
Phonetics and Phonology
The aim of this course is to provide students with an introduction to the fields of phonetics and phonology. At the successful completion of the unit you should:-
- be familiar with the International Phonetic Alphabet
- be familiar with the principles of phonetic transcription and be able to perform simple broad and narrow phonetic transcription tasks
- have an understanding of speech articulation
- be familiar with the major characteristics of vowels and consonants and with a number of ways of classifying these speech sounds
- understand the distinction between phonemes and allophones and the principles of phonemic analysis
- be familiar with some of the ways that languages and dialects differ in both their phoneme inventories and the pronunciation of their phonemes
- have a basic understanding of the phonology of intonation