Overview
Speaking turns ideas into sound. Examination of what sounds are in human language, how they pattern, and how to discover them. Covers both theory and experimental testing.
If you listen to a language that you don't speak, all you hear is a wall of noise. But somehow speakers of the language turn that noise into clear sounds, words, and sentences that are so easy to understand that it can be a joy. How do we do this? The class combines psycholinguistic theory with practical work of acoustics and experimentation.
About this paper
| Paper title | Laboratory Phonology |
|---|---|
| Subject | Linguistics |
| EFTS | 0.15 |
| Points | 18 points |
| Teaching period | Not offered in 2025 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $1,040.70 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- One 200-level LING paper
- Restriction
- LING 215
- Schedule C
- Arts and Music
- Contact
Dr Hunter Hatfield, hunter.hatfield@otago.ac.nz
- More information link
View more information on the English and Linguistics Programme website
- Teaching staff
- Teaching Arrangements
This paper is taught via 26 lectures and 8 tutorials.
- Textbooks
Readings available online.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Lifelong learning, Scholarship, Research, Self-motivation.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete this paper will:
- Describe key aspects of articulatory and acoustic phonetics (Scholarship)
- Analyse language data to discover underlying patterns (Lifelong Learning)
- Collect language data for acoustic and perception research (Self-Motivation, Research)
- Justify a description of a language using real data (Scholarship)