- Instructor
- Erik W. Willis
- Location
- AC C103
- Days and Times
- TR 11:30A-12:45P
- Course Description
VT: Perception Research in Spanish Phonetics & Phonology
Note: Departmental Consent Required, contact GRADHISP@indiana.edu
Note: Graduate students only.This course examines issues in the Spanish Phonological system and sociophonetics based primarily on perception data. The initial portion of the class will review methods and techniques employed by perception studies and Laboratory Phonology studies in general, followed by specific topics in Spanish Phonology and Sociophonetics. Topics include hiatus resolution, the vowel system, lenition, stress and accent, and intonation. The skills and methods employed in this course will apply to various phonological research purposes, such as second language acquisition, bilingualism, dialectology, and variation. A primary goal of the course is to enable students to conduct original research in Spanish laboratory phonology and sociophonetics.
Course requirements include a series of phonetic and phonological analyses, class presentations, article reviews, and a final research project. Course materials include the acoustic analysis software PRAAT, texts Phonetic Data Analysis (Ladefoged 2003) and Los sonidos del español (Hualde 2014), Sociophonetics: An Introduction (Thomas 2011), and assigned articles.
HISP-S 712 #11813 11:30A-12:45P TR AC C103 Professor Erik Willis
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