The purpose of ENG 427 is to build on knowledge gained from ENG 320 (Linguistics I) and ENG 323 (Linguistics II) by providing an overview of influential 20th century schools of linguistics. Students learn the back story of field-altering linguists and their theoretical contributions.
This is an introductory course to the study of speech sounds. It explores the fields of phonetics and phonology. It starts with a look at the human vocal tract and its work mechanism. Students then learn to describe and classify speech sounds based on their place and manner of articulation and voicing. After that students are trained on transcribing words and sentences using IPA. Students are then introduced to phoneme theory. They explore the relationship between phonemes and allophones as well as types of distribution.
