CSAD 110

Physics of Sound and Phonetics

Physical production, acoustic characteristics of sounds of speech. International Phonetic Alphabet as applied to speech sounds; practice in phonetic transcription of dialects and deviant speech; applications in speech education, speech and hearing therapy. Introduction to physiological acoustics, psychoacoustics, and acoustic phonetics. Perception of speech including voice, resonance, individual speech segments; instrumentation for acoustic and perceptual analysis of speech.

Units: 4.0