LIN 295B - Special Topic: Phonetics and Phonology

4 credits (Fall)

This course investigates the way that sound is produced and perceived by the human body and the way that sounds behave in spoken human languages. Topics include: the articulation of speech, the basic anatomy of the vocal tract, the acoustic properties of speech sounds, speech perception, the distribution of sound inventories in the world’s languages, the relationship between sound and other levels of linguistic description, and approaches to modeling sound behavior within a given language.

Prerequisite: LIN 114.
Instructor: Hansen