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.
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.