yale linguistics


Jelena Krivokapić - Teaching

Fall 2007

120a/520a/PSYC318a General Phonetics
Investigation of possible ways of describing the speech sounds of human languages. Tools to be developed: acoustics and physiology of speech; computer synthesis of speech; practical exercises in producing and transcribing sounds.


Spring 2008

236b/636b Articulatory Phonology
Introduction to phonology as a system for combining units of speech (constriction gestures of the vocal organs) into larger structures. Course will include both theory (reading) and practice (analysis of articulatory movement data; modeling using techniques of dynamical systems). Emphasis on universal vs. language-particular aspects of gestural combination and coordination.

Linguistics at Yale University