PLING154 - Phonetic Theory

Outline (more details can be found on the Life Sciences Faculty Courses Database)

This course will present a critical examination of how phonetics relates to other disciplines in linguistics by exploring a number of theoretical issues in phonetic science, with focus on how human speech can effectively transmit multiple layers of communicative meanings through an articulation process. It will cover issues relating to coarticulation, distinctive features, timing and coordination, speech acquisition and vocal expression of emotions, and demonstrate how they are mechanistically interrelated based on an articulatory-functional view of speech. Also will be discussed is research methodology in terms of its importance for the theoretical development in phonetic science.

Taught by:

• Yi Xu