| Course ID: | LING 8021. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Phonetics and Phonology |
Course
Description: | Introduction to the study of the sounds used in human languages and how sounds function as a system in individual languages. Fundamentals of articulatory and acoustic phonetics, basic phonological architecture and formalism, phonetic motivations for phonological alternations. |
| Oasis Title: | Phonetics and Phonology |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Students will become familiar with the articulatory parameters
and acoustic analysis of speech sounds. Homework assignments
will include transcription and spectral analysis using the free
computer program Praat. They will understand the basic
phonological architecture and formalism and be able to relate
phonological alternations to phonetic motivations where
appropriate. Students will present and argue for their analyses
in homework assignments and a take-home final exam. |
| Topical Outline: | Articulatory Phonetics
phonetic parameters
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
transcription
phonetic markedness/universals
Acoustic Phonetics
intro to Praat
reading spectrograms
spectral analysis
Intro to Phonological Concepts
phonological distributions
phonological rules, derivational phonology
Building Phonological Theory
phonological features
alpha notation
rule ordering
Pushing the Theory Further
feature geometry
autosegmental phonology
syllable structure |
| Honor Code Reference: | Students in this course are expected to be familiar with and
adhere to the University 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. |