LING 3420 — Phonetics
4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath ADtypical days: M/W/ThBostonTraditional
Surveys phonetics, the study of speech sounds, including articulatory, acoustic, and auditory phonetics. Articulatory phonetics topics include anatomy and physiology; cross-linguistic consonant and vowel articulation; aerodynamics of speech production; coarticulation phenomena; and phonetics of supersegmentals such as syllables, stress, tone, and pitch accent. Acoustic phonetics topics include the physics of sound waves, reading spectrograms, and performing acoustic analyses. Auditory phonetics topics include audition and speech perception.
Prerequisites
- LING 2350 (min D-)
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2024 | 1 | 19 | 19 | 100% | 0.0 |
| Spring 2026 | 1 | 16 | 19 | 84% | 3.0 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 100% · T 0% · W 100% · Th 100% · F 0%
Common patterns: MWR (100% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- Robert Painter (100% of students) · reviews
Spring
- Alejna Brugos (100% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Links
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