for undergraduate courses

Michaelmas Term: Introduction to Phonetics

(For the Hilary Term course on Acoustic Phonetics, click here)

Acknowledgements

Course outline

Reading list

Introduction to Phonetics

In this course ...

The International Phonetic Alphabet

Respiration and air-stream mechanisms

Airstream mechanism exercises

Phonation exercises

Place of articulation

Stricture

Place and manner exercises

Multiple Articulation and Coarticulation

Secondary and double articulation exercises

Prosody examples

Hilary Term: Acoustic Phonetics

1. Introduction to Acoustic Phonetics

Why should linguists study acoustic phonetics?

We speak in order to be heard

Introduction to speech acoustics 1

Link to University of Wisconsin Dept. of Neurophysiology page on basics of sound

Variations in air pressure