Non-Laboratory Phonetics

Eno-Abasi Urua

Doug Whalen

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Time: 10:15am – 11:45am

Week 1: 19 - 22 June 2012

Meeting Location: 633 Fraser Hall

In this course, we will introduce the essentials for doing phonetics of any language. We will start with a description of articulatory phonetics, with reference to the identification and classification of consonants and vowels. This will lead to a survey of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) whose symbols are a tool to assist the field phonetician in accurate and near-universal representation of sounds of a language. We will go over the use of Keyman phonetic software for incorporating IPA symbols into text easily, along with some simpler but less fluid alternatives. We will introduce Praat, a free program for phonetic analysis that can be run on any platform. At the end of the class, students who felt that they did not have a sense of what the sounds of language were like and how to deal with them should have a grasp of the basics and the means to learn more on their own.