Moodle

The course, consisting of a lecture and an exercise session, gives an overview of the three main areas of Speech Science: speech production, the acoustic structure of speech, and speech perception. The topics covered include the anatomy and physiology of speech production; articulation ant the symbolic representation of speech; theories of speech production; the source-filter model of speech production and the acoustic properties of sound classes; the ear and hearing physiology; theories of speech perception.

This seminar deals with a variety of topics related to the acquisition of spoken language. Articles on the following research areas within speech acquisition will be presented by individual participants and discussed in the group: (1) phonological development in first language acquisition; (2) second dialect acquisition in adolescence and within-speaker sound change; (3) second language acquisition in early and late bilinguals; (4) the role of exposure, experience and input on acquisition as wells the role of the two speech modalities production and perception; (5) the aging voice and the decline of spoken language.