The University of the West Indies, Mona

The first section of this course introduces the study of articulation (articulatory phonetics), including the details of the vocal apparatus and how it is used to produce speech. The course introduces the International Phonetic Alphabet and teaches how its symbols can be used to provide an accurate representation of the sounds of language. In the second section of the course, we study how languages group sounds into categories called ‘phonemes’, and also discover how phonemes are combined to produce syllables, and how stress and tone may be used in languages.