LING 210 Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology (3)

Phonetics is the study of the production and perception of natural language. Phonology is the study of how languages combine their inventory of sounds into words. This course provides an introduction to these areas of linguistics. Students will learn to read and write phonetic transcriptions, study the sound systems of a wide variety of human languages, analyze phonetic and phonemic data, and understand language variation and change.
Prerequisite(s): LING 125 or permission of the instructor
Course Frequency: Occasional