LING 5409
Acoustic Phonetics
Course Description
Pre-Requisite(s):
LNGS 3250 or Instructor Permission
In this course on phonetics, students will explore the acoustic properties of different segment types, formants, pitch, intensity, spectra, and voice pulsing, among other phenomena. The emphasis is on parameters that influence speech intelligibility, the correlates of language variation (comparison between languages, effects of dialects), as well as some aspects of phonetic pathology.
