Overview
Description
Theory and structure of sound systems of language, including the sociolinguistic variation within dialects of English.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall - Even Years
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- use the International Phonetic Alphabet to transcribe words at the phonetic and phonemic levels.
- explain the concepts phoneme, complementary & contrastive distribution, and apply them in phonological analysis.
- identify and describe common phonological processes.
- use the acoustic analysis software Praat to answer questions about the acoustic nature of speech sounds.
- explain the relationship between phonetic and phonological representations.
- distinguish between sound and unsound interpretations of scientific information in the following ways: 1. by applying the scientific method to formulate, evaluate, and revise their own hypotheses about the phonological phenomena observed in datasets, and 2. by comparing, evaluating, and synthesizing scholarly literature representing competing views of phonological phenomena.
- explain the role of phonetics and aerodynamics in phonological change.
- explain how the descriptive and analytical mechanisms presented in the course relate to problems of societal concern, for instance by describing how varieties of English and other languages differ in their phonological structure and behavior according to sociolinguistic variables such as origin, ethnicity, gender, and age.