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Undergraduate Course: Linguistics 2B (LASC08013)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaLanguage Sciences Other subject areaNone
Course website http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/study/undergrad/L2/ Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThe course will introduce students to basic instrumental phonetics, to basic phonetic ear training, and to basic empirical methods for evaluating hypotheses about language behaviour, including speech. It will focus on the practical skills of phoentic transcription and interpreting instrumental records of speech, and on deepening students' understanding of the relationship between "messy" data and "neat" idealisations and theoretical conclusions. The section of the course on empirical methods will be based on group projects done in tutorial groups, at least partly on the basis of independent group work. These projects will work with language data of some sort, which may change from time to time: examples include the relationship between information structure and phonetic form of referring expressions in unscripted speech, and the relationship between social variables and linguistic variables.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: Linguistics 2A (LASC08006)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesVisiting students should usually have at least 1 introductory level Language Science course at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this) for entry to this course. We will only consider University/College level courses.

Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?Yes
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, students will have learned
- to use basic acoustic analysis software such as Praat;
- to interpret instrumental records of speech, especially spectrograms;
- to understand the elements of acoustic theory as it applies to the analysis of speech;
- to recognise a wide range of sound types used in human languages and to acquire basic skills in phonetic transcription;
- to formulate hypotheses about various aspects of language behaviour;
- to think clearly about the kinds of data required for testing such hypotheses.
Assessment Information
Coursework (phonetics project, transcription and instrumental phonetics test, group project work) 90%, Tutorial attendance 10%.
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
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Contacts
Course organiserProf Caroline Heycock
Tel: (0131 6)51 1999
Email: Caroline.Heycock@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Stephanie Fong
Tel:
Email: S.Fong@ed.ac.uk
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