Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

ALL 106 — Introduction to General Phonetics II

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What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

distinguish meaningful speech sounds from noises
appraise the importance of acoustic phonetics and other branches of Phonetics
identify the manifestation of tone, stress and intonation in a language
recognise the role of tone, stress and intonation in communication; and
analyse pitch, duration, amplitude in a spectrogram

Course contents

Meaning of sound. Types of sound – speech, music and noise. Relationship between acoustic phonetics and other branches of phonetics. Introduction to acoustic phonetics – amplitude, loudness, duration, continuous sound, impulse- like sound, intensity, frequency, cycle, period, timbre, transducer and attenuation.

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ALL 106 — Introduction to General Phonetics II

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

Course contents

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