Certificate in Phonetics and Phonology
offered by Mumbai University

A++ NAAC accredited
State University
Estd. 1857

Certificate in Phonetics and Phonology
at
Mumbai University
Overview

A specialized program designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the sounds of human speech and the rules governing how those sounds function in different languages

Duration	1 year
Mode of learning	Online
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Credential	Certificate

Certificate in Phonetics and Phonology
at
Mumbai University
Highlights

Earn a certificate after completion of course

Certificate in Phonetics and Phonology
at
Mumbai University
Course details

Who should do this course?

Linguistics Students: Those pursuing or planning to pursue studies in linguistics or related fields

Language Teachers: Teachers of English or other languages who wish to improve their understanding of pronunciation and accent reduction

Speech Therapists: Professionals interested in applying phonetic and phonological knowledge to speech therapy and correction

What are the course deliverables?

Introduction to Phonetics

Articulatory Phonetics

Acoustic Phonetics

Auditory Phonetics

Introduction to Phonology

Phonological Analysis

Suprasegmentals and Prosody

More about this course

A certificate course in Phonetics and Phonology is a year-long part-time course which runs weekly, usually only on Sundays

It is a very interesting option for teachers of languages, school-teachers, language-learners, soft-skill trainers, speech therapists, forensic scientists, and anyone interested in languages

The course hones the skills of the students in perceiving, identifying and describing speech sounds, as well as discover patterns of sounds in human languages and how they may associate with writing systems in the world

Certificate in Phonetics and Phonology
at
Mumbai University
Curriculum

Setting the stage:
The role of sounds in communication
The domain of phonetics
Major branches of phonetics: articulatory, acoustic and auditory phonetics

Physiology and anatomy of speech production:
Phases of speech
Speech organs and their functions

Basic components of speech production:
Initiation or air-stream mechanism
Types of air-stream mechanisms:
Ingressive and egressive air-stream
Pulmonic air-stream mechanism
Velaric air-stream mechanism
Glottalic air-stream mechanism
Phonation (states of the glottis)
Phonation types
Articulation: place and manner of articulation; various stricture types

IClassification and description of speech sounds:
Distinction between consonants and vowels
Articulatory and acoustic criteria for classification and description of consonants
Articulatory and acoustic criteria for classification and description of vowels
Semivowels
Diphthongs and triphthongs

Co-articulation and Sequences:
Co-ordinate articulation
Secondary articulation
Homorganic, heterorganic and contiguous sequences
Transitions: open and closed transitions, juncture

The syllable:
Notion of the syllable, notions of Varna and Akshara in Indian tradition
Obligatory component of the syllable: the peak
Form/ structure of a syllable

VProsody:
Prosodic features: pitch, length, loudness
Stress: primary and secondary stress, relation of stress with loudness, length and prominence, rhythm
Tone: pitch contours, types of tones, toneme and tonal languages Intonation: intonation groups, structure of the tone unit; functions of intonation: attitudinal function, accentual function, grammatical function, discourse function

Phonetics in Indian tradition:
Introduction to Paniniya Shiksha

Phonology: Introduction
Relation of Phonetics and Phonology
Notion of a phoneme: distinctiveness, phoneme-phone-allophone,
archiphoneme
Psychological reality of a phoneme

Identification of phonemes of a language (Discovery procedures)
Complementary distribution, contrastive distribution and free variation
Phonetic similarity
Pattern congruity
Economy