ENG 578

Course Code: ENG 578
Course Name:
Pronunciation (Phonetics and Phonology)
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:

The course introduces the concepts on the Articulatory Phonetics: The Vocal Organs, Places of Articulation, The Oro-Nasal Process, Manners of Articulation, The Articulation of Vowel and Consonant Sounds, Phonemic Transcriptions, Acoustic Phonetics, Airstream  Mechanisms and Phonation Types, Syllables and Suprasegmental Features, Linguistic Phonetics, along with additional concepts such as Syllables and Consonant Clusters, Strong and Weak Forms, Types of Transcriptions, Bangla Phonetics, Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Phonetics. For the students minoring, this course shall help soften an accent and increase confidence when communicating, by teaching the sounds stresses and rhythms that can be so tricky to figure out when English is not the native tongue of the students.