Home » Course Layouts » Free Course Layout Udemy
24.901 is designed to give you a preliminary understanding of how the sound systems of different languages are structured, how and why they may differ from each other.
0
2
English
English [CC]
FREE
- Learn basic syntax that can apply to any language.
- Learn what is a programming language and the basic concepts for beginners.
- Understand what is Javascript in it's truest form.
- Know the basic syntax of Javascript.
- Know some hidden quirks in Javascript.
Description
The course also aims to provide you with analytical tools in phonology, enough to allow you to sketch the analysis of an entire phonological system by the end of the term. On a non-linguistic level, the course aims to teach you by example the virtues of formulating precise and explicit descriptive statements; and to develop your skills in making and evaluating arguments.
Course content
- Introduction, course overview, vowels: articulatory description and transcription Unlimited
- Consonants: articulatory description and transcription; distinctive features Unlimited
- Phonological versus phonetic representations Unlimited
- Alternations and derivations I Unlimited
- Alternations and derivations II Unlimited
- Constraints Unlimited
- Phonetics I: acoustics of vowels, using Praat Unlimited
- Phonetics II: acoustics of consonants Unlimited
- Phonetics III: suprasegmentals Unlimited
- Feature geometry Unlimited
- Sociolinguistic variables Unlimited
- American English dialects Unlimited
- Tone I: African languages Unlimited
- Tone II: Asian languages Unlimited
- Tone III: intonation and phrasing Unlimited
- Syllables I: structure and syllabification Unlimited
- Syllables II: sonority Unlimited
- Stress I: prominence Unlimited
- Stress II: rhythm Unlimited
- Stress III: weight Unlimited
- Prosodic morphology: reduplication and truncation Unlimited
- Loanword phonology Unlimited
- Review Unlimited
Instructor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5
5
1
1916
1520
