Linguistics 390A - Fundamentals of Speech Sounds

Spring
2023
01
3.00
Michael Becker,Joseph Pater,Kristine Yu

M W F 10:10AM 11:00AM

UMass Amherst
69279
Integr. Learning Center N211
michael@linguist.umass.edu
pater@linguist.umass.edu
kmyu@linguist.umass.edu
How humans produce, hear, and compute the sounds of their languages. An introduction to the sounds of the world's languages, their acoustics and their interactions. Commonalities and differences between languages and their sound systems. The development of spoken language from birth to adulthood. Can be taken instead of LING 402 or instead of LING 414 but not both.

Pre Req: LINGUIST 201

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