LNGS 201 — Phonetics
Linguistics · University of Ghana
The course introduces students to phonetics as a branch of Linguistics. It focuses on the mechanisms behind the production of speech sounds. It also deals with the description, classification and transcription of speech sounds. It will further provide students the opportunity to practise the production of speech sounds. Topics include: speech organs, airstream mechanisms, phonation types and articulation, vowels, consonants and suprasegmentals.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 200
- Semester
- Semester One
Other courses on this programme
- LNGS 202 — Introduction to Syntax
- LNGS 203 — Introduction to Morphology
- LNGS 204 — Languages in Ghana
- GHLS 111 — Ghanaian Language Proficiency for Beginners
- GHLS 112 — Intermediate Ghanaian Language Proficiency
- GHLS 113 — Advanced Ghanaian Language Proficiency I
- GHLS 114 — Advanced Ghanaian Language Proficiency II
- GHLS 331 — Oral Literature of a Ghanaian Language
- GHLS 332 — Use of a Ghanaian Language
- GHLS 430 — Project
- GHLS 441 — Written Literature of a Ghanaian Language
- GHLS 442 — Advanced Composition in a Ghanaian Language
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).