Overview
Description
Covers the physiology of speech, acoustic principles of speech production & perception, dialect variation, acoustic analysis software, experiment design, research ethics, & fieldwork. Students will design and conduct their own phonetics experiments.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Junior standing
ENG 281ENG 282ENG 412ASPA 320ENG 303
Recommended Preparation
ENG 412A
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
ENG 281 or ENG 282 or ENG 412A or SPA 320; ENG 303 or Junior standing.
Recommended Preparation
ENG 412A is strongly recommended.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years
Terms
fall
Core
CO9
Restrictions
Junior standing
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- describe the roles played by the parts of the human vocal tract in the production of speech sounds.
- characterize the principal acoustic properties of each category of speech sound.
- make basic interpretations of spectrograms and waveforms.
- design, run, and analyze the results of a speech-production experiment.
- distinguish between sound and unsound interpretations of scientific information by applying the scientific method to formulate, evaluate, and revise hypotheses about phonetic phenomena.