Admission requirements
BA in linguistics or a particular language; MA/BA in Anthropology or Bible Translation. This course is a prerequisite for the elective Field Methods & Linguistic Analysis.
Description
Articulatory phonetics deals with the production, perception, identification and categorization of speech sounds. In this course, we study the sounds of the world’s languages: we learn how to recognize them, produce them, and to transcribe them. We will also study how particular segments and segment types are distributed across the languages of the world. Being able to read and write the International Phonetic Alphabet is a useful asset for further linguistic studies in general, but practical knowledge of articulatory phonetics and a typological background of sound systems is mandatory if you intend to do primary language data collection in the field.
Course objectives
At the end of this course, students are capable of recognising and producing the sounds of the languages of the world as well as transcribing them using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Students will also be able to read written material in phonetic transcription.
Timetable
Friday 11.15-13.00 in Lipsius, room 203
Mode of instruction
Tutorial.
Students will need to spend a significant amount of time practising the sounds individually at home, using various (internet) resources that will be suggested during the course.
Assessment method
- Class attentandance and active participation: 10%
- Two transcription tests during the course (each 10%): 20%
- Review excercises I and II (each 10%): 20%
- Typology assignment(s): 10%
- Final transcription test: 40%
Blackboard
Reading list
Do not purchase any of these books yet.
Textbook: Bickford, Anita C. and Rick Floyd. 2003 [3rd ed. or any later editions]. Tools for Analyzing the world’s languages: Articulatory Phonetics. Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
Additional Reading: Ladefoged, Peter and Ian Maddieson. 1996. The Sounds of the World’s Languages. Oxford: Blackwell.
Additional reading: Catford, J.C., 2001 [2nd edition]. A practical introduction to Phonetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (selected chapters)
Typology readings: Selected chapters on the typology of sounds from The World Atlas of Language Structures (Oxford, 2005), also available online: http://wals.info/.
Registration
Exchange and Study Abroad students, please see the Study in Leiden website for information on how to apply
Contact information
Programme coordinator and student advisor
Remarks
- Introduction
- Stops
- Nasals
- Fricatives and Affricates
- Sibilants and Affricates
- Laterals
- Rhotics
- Vowels
- Vowels
- Vowel Harmony
- Approximants
- Ejectives and Implosives
- Clicks; Features and Natural Classes