Experimental Phonetics

This subject is not offered in 2014.

2.5 contact hours/week, an additional 8 hours/week. Total of 10.5 hours per week.

LING20005 - Phonetics or equivalent

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If not admitted to Honours or PG Diploma in Linguistics or Applied Linguistics, students are recommended to have contacted the subject coordinator prior to enrolling in the subject.

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For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Objectives, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

It is University policy to take all reasonable steps to minimise the impact of disability upon academic study, and reasonable adjustments will be made to enhance a student's participation in the University's programs. Students who feel their disability may impact on meeting the requirements of this subject are encouraged to discuss this matter with a Faculty Student Adviser and the Disability Liaison Unit: http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/disability/

This subject involves the instrumental study of spoken language. Students should become familiar with basic techniques commonly used to analyse the acoustics and articulation of sound sequences, and prosody (eg. stress and intonation).The relationship of these techniques to current models of speech production and perception and laboratory phonology.

• Understanding the use of different experimental techniques in phonetic science.
• Developing skills in instrumental phonetic analysis of spoken language.
• have acquired computer literacy through use of IT in accoustic and articulatory analyses of spoken language.

Written work totalling 5000 words.

Phonetic Data Analysis (Ledefoged, P.) Blackwell

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This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• have acquired skill in observation and attention to detail through anaylsis of phonetics data.
• have strengthened their computer literacy through use of IT in acoustic and auditory analysis of spoken language.
• have improved their ability to communicate knowledge intelligibly and economically.