University General Course Catalog 2018-2019 
    
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ENG 413D - Introduction to Experimental Phonetics

(3 units)
Principles of linguistic phonetics: physiology of human speech production, acoustic analysis of speech sounds, experimental design, and fieldwork methods. Covers use of acoustic analysis software and ethics in human subjects research.

Prerequisite(s): ENG 281  or ENG 282  or ENG 412A /ENG 612A  or SPA 320 ; ENG 303  or Junior standing. ENG 412A  is strongly recommended.

Grading Basis: Graded
Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. describe the roles played by the parts of the human vocal tract in the production of speech sounds.
2. characterize the principal acoustic properties of each category of speech sound.
3. make basic interpretations of spectrograms and waveforms.
4. design, run, and analyze the results of a speech-production experiment.


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