Department of Spanish and Portuguese

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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