LING2300 - Sound Structure of Language

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Sound Structure of Language
Term
2025A
Subject area
LING
Section number only
401
Section ID
LING2300401
Course number integer
2300
Meeting times
MW 3:30 PM-4:59 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Aletheia Cui
Description
An introduction to phonetics and phonology. Topics include articulatory phonetics (the anatomy of the vocal tract; how speech sounds are produced); transcription (conventions for representing the sounds of the world's languages); classification (how speech sounds are classified and represented cognitively through distinctive features); phonology (the grammar of speech sounds in various languages: their patterning and interaction) and syllable structure and its role in phonology.
Course number only
2300
Cross listings
LING5300401
Use local description
No