Course Description
Analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of speech sound systems in the world's languages, especially American English. Emphasis on IPA transcription of segmental and suprasegmental aspects; and narrow transcription of variants associated with individual differences, regional dialects, cultural variation, and speech disorders.
Athena Title
Phonetics for CMSD
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in CMSD 6120E
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, students should be able to: 1. describe and classify speech sounds according to standard descriptive and production schemes, emphasizing standard phonemes of major variations of American English; 2. identify, discriminate among, produce, and complete broad IPA transcriptions for speech sounds, emphasizing standard phonemes of major variations of American English; and 3. demonstrate an understanding of some of the complexities involved in listening to and transcribing speech, and begin using diacritics to make narrow transcription of familiar and unfamiliar speech sounds, emphasizing normal and disordered variations of American English.
Topical Outline
This course is about speech sounds. We will discuss several classification systems, based on how sounds are produced and on how they sound. We will learn to use one particular system, the International Phonetic Alphabet, to transcribe speech sounds, and we will discuss how these transcripts vary for persons with different native languages and with different disorders of their speech, language, or hearing.
Syllabus