EL35JX PHONETICS
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30 Credit Course: 12 weeks
Course Co-ordinators: Dr M Durham
Pre-requisite(s): Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above who have fulfilled the entry requirements to the Language and Linguistics Honours programme, or by permission of the Programme Co-ordinator.
This course focuses upon two areas of speech communication: speech acoustics – the study of the sound signals passing between speaker and hearer, and auditory phonetics – the processes by which these signals are perceived and understood by the hearer. Topics to be covered include speech production, basic acoustics, computerised methods for speech analysis, auditory system, and speech perception. Students will learn to use speech analysis software to analyze speech data, and will become familiar with theories of speech production and perception.
1 two-hour lecture per fortnight; 1 two-hour seminar per fortnight (alternating with lectures); 1 two-hour laboratory practical per fortnight.
Assessment: 1 two-hour written examination (45%), In-course assessment: 1 homework exercise (22.5%), 1 homework test (22.5%), and seminar assessment mark essay (10%). Tue/Fri at 9
Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%)