LING 3044 - Phonetics

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENG 2010, or permission of instructor

Description: This course, designed for Linguistics majors and minors, is an in-depth study of language sounds, how humans produce them, and how humans perceive them. Students learn about all three branches of the field: articulatory, acoustic, and auditory phonetics. Students also gain proficiency in using the International Phonetic Alphabet, collecting acoustic speech data, and interpreting waveforms and spectrograms.