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PSYC-E339

Phonétique générale et éléments de phonétique clinique

academic year
2023-2024
2024-2025

Course teacher(s)

Véronique DELVAUX (Coordinator)

ECTS credits

5

Language(s) of instruction

french

Course content

Phonetics as a discipline; phonetics versus phonology; breathing and airstream initiation; voicing and voice quality; places of articulation of consonants; modes of articulation of consonants; classification of vowels; sinusoids and spectral analysis; formants; spectrograms; examples of spectra of speech sounds; acoustic properties of vowels; acoustic properties of consonants; elements of coarticulation and timing.

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

Description and classification of speech sounds

Prerequisites and Corequisites

Courses requiring this course

Teaching methods and learning activities

Course and personal activities (phonetic transcription; phonetic labeling of spectrograms; review questions)

References, bibliography, and recommended reading

list of references is provided on the web site of the course

Other information

Contacts

U.L.B., CP 165/51, Av. F.-D. Roosevelt, B-1050, Bruxelles Local : DA 5 013, tél.: 02 650 3660, jschoent@ulb.ac.be

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • written examination

written examination

Written exam

Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)

grading is proportionnal to the inter-candidate variability

Language(s) of evaluation

  • french

Programmes