At the end of the course, students will have explored two
fundamental aspects of the sounds of human language: speech
sounds as physical entities (phonetics) and speech sounds as
linguistic units (phonology). In the first part of the course
(i.e., phonetics), students learn to produce, transcribe, and
describe in articulatory and acoustic terms many of the sounds
known to occur in human languages, using the International
Phonetic Alphabet. In the second part of the course (i.e.,
phonology), students focus on sound patterns within particular 
linguistic systems and learn about cross-linguistically common
phenomena through formal analysis of data from a wide range of
languages. A theme linking the two halves of the course is that
speech sounds are simultaneously physical and abstract linguistic
elements, and that these two aspects of sound structure are
interdependent. Students are evaluated via homework, in-class
quizzes and activities, a midterm, and final exam.

1. Speech articulation
2. Phonetic transcription (consonants and vowels)
3. Airstream mechanisms and phonation types
4. Acoustic phonetics
5. The phonemic principle: phonemes and allophones
6. Phonological features
7. Phonological analysis and rule ordering
8. Autosegmental phonology, phonology of tone, syllable structure

Students in this course are expected to be familiar with and adhere to the Univer-
sity of Georgia policy on academic honesty, according to which all violations of
academic honesty will be handled. Students may participate in graded group projects
at the instructor's discretion.