Phonetics for Speech Language Pathology (PSLL-201): Course Content

Course Content:

• Definition and branches. Brief sketch of articulatory, acoustic and auditory phonetics.

• Speech: Formation of speech, Speech mechanisms: Air stream, phonatory, articulatory and resonatory mechanisms.

• Classification of speech sounds: Segmental and suprasegmentally.

• Segmental: Vowels and Consonants. • Classification of consonants: Place and manner of articulation,

• Voiceless and voiced consonants.

• Classification of vowels. Concept of cardinal vowels.

• Supra- segmental: Stress, pitch, tone and intonation.

• Semivowels and diphthongs: Formation and classification.

• Sounds formed using non-pulmonic air stream: Ejectives, implosives and clicks.

• Acoustic theory of speech production.

• Acoustic properties of vowels and consonants.

• Sound spectrograph.

• Overview of the structure of the vocal tract

• The description and production of the sounds of the IPA (English and non-English)

• The transcription of English and non-English vowels and consonants from the IPA

• Complex articulations

• Theory of voice

• Different air stream mechanisms

• The phonological organization of English

• The pattern of phonological development and Phonological disorders

• Introduction to phonological analysis

• The description of speech ‘errors’ with reflection on remediation, based on phonetic principles.

PHONOLOGY:

• Definitions of phoneme and allophones.

• Phonemic analysis with reference to Pakistani languages.

• Distinctive feature analysis.

• Its application in articulatory disorders.

• Syllable: Types and structure of syllables

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION

• Broad transcription

• Narrow transcription