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English Phonetics & Phonology

702312 - English Phonetics & Phonology
Faculty

Faculty of Languages and Communication

Department

Translation

Credit Hours

3

Pre-requisite

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Co-requisite

_

Distribution

0+0
This course introduces students to phonetic and phonological theory with emphasis on the anatomy and physiology of speech, the production of sounds, the articulatory and distinctive features of sounds, and speech acoustics. The International Phonetic Alphabet is introduced and students are trained on phonetic and phonological transcription of words. It also covers topics such as the sounds of speech, their distinctive features, natural classes of sounds, redundant features, the phoneme, phonological alternations, phonological rules, rule ordering, syllable structure and syllabification, auto segmental phonology, and stress and stress patterns.