Linguistics 302 - Fundamentals of Speech Sounds

Spring
2026
01
3.00
Michael Becker

M W 2:30PM 3:45PM

UMass Amherst
79948
Hasbrouck Lab Add room 109
michael@linguist.umass.edu
This course provides an introduction to the rich diversity of the sounds of the world?s languages and the different ways that they are used across those languages. Students learn how to analyze individual sounds and their patterning in a language. Skills include transcription of sounds in the International Phonetic Alphabet, description of sounds in terms of their production, acoustic measurement of sounds, analysis of sound patterns in terms of constraints and rules.

Pre Req: LINGUIST 201

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