LING520 - Phonetics I

Activity
LEC
Section number integer
1
Title (text only)
Phonetics I
Term
2019C
Subject area
LING
Section number only
001
Section ID
LING520001
Course number integer
520
Registration notes
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Meeting times
MW 09:30 AM-11:00 AM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Jianjing Kuang
Description
Speech: its linguistic transcription, its quantitative physical description, and its relationship to the categories and dimensions of language structure and use. The physical basis of speech: acoustics, vocal tract anatomy and physiology, hearing and speech perception, articulation and motor control. Phonetic variation and change. Prosody: stress, intonation, phrasing speech rate. Phonetic instrumentation, the design and interpretation of phonetic experiments, and the use of phonetic evidence in linguistic research, with emphasis on computer techniques. Introduction to speech signal processing. Speech technology: introduction to speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, speech coding. This course will emphasize the phonetics of natural speech, and its connections to issues in other areas of linguistics and cognitive science.
Course number only
520
Use local description
No