3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to phonetics. This includes broad coverage in articulatory phonetics, speech acoustics, speech aerodynamics, speech perception, and phonetic transcription. Particular topics covered include place and manner of articulation, airstream mechanisms, the aerodynamic myoelastic theory of vocal fold vibration, source-filter theory, the relation between airflow and turbulence, resonance and anti-resonance, speech suprasegmentals, hearing mechanisms, perceptual distance and scales, phonological features, and allophony