LING 380

Acoustic Phonetics

Units: 1.5, Hours: 2-2

A study of the acoustical properties of speech sounds including the basic physical principles involved in the generation and propagation of sound energy and the phenomenon of resonance; students are introduced to experimental instruments and trained in the use of the sound spectrograph for the analysis of speech sounds.

Prerequisites: 200, 250 or equivalent.

Undergraduate course in Linguistics offered by the Department of Linguistics in the Faculty of Humanities.