Experimental Phonetics

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2016:

Total of 170 hours

none

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

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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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.

On successful completion of this subject, students should:

• Understand the use of different experimental techniques in phonetic science;
• developed 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

Hurdle requirement: Students must attend a minimum of 75% of tutorials in order to pass this subject. All pieces of written work must be submitted to pass this subject.

Note: Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 10% per working day. In-class tasks missed without approval will not be marked.

Phonetic Data Analysis (Ledefoged, P.) Blackwell

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

Students who successfully complete this subject should have:

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