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| Phonetics Home Ling 51: Phonetics Phonetics is the study of human speech sounds. This course emphasizes the acquisition of four related skills: recognition, transcription, description, and the production of speech sounds. The focus is not on any particular language. Given a good grasp of phonetics, one can listen to any human language and record accurately on paper the way it sounded, so that any other phonetician could read it back. This skill is extremely useful for anyone who ever plans to be in a foreign language environment, and is also applicable in a number of other domains, for instance, speech therapy, research work on machine recognition and synthesis of speech, dialect acquisition for actors, foreign pronunciation for broadcasters, and of course the study of linguistics. The work will involve learning a highly useful phonetic alphabet and acquiring an understanding of the articulatory and acoustic properties of speech sounds. In addition, students will apply this knowledge in order to understand better facts about language sound systems, e.g., why certain sounds are common or uncommon.
Prerequisites: none. General Education Code: IH (Introduction to Humanities).
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