SPAN 311 - Phonetics and Dialectology

Upper Division

Prerequisites
SPAN 300 or SPAN 301; Minimum grade C-.

Students will study the sounds, intonation and rhythm of spoken Spanish as they explore general principles of phonetics and phonology, phonetic transcription, historical development of the Spanish sound system and differences between modern peninsular and Latin American dialects. The course also addresses the Spanish/English contrastive analysis and typical phonetic interference present in bilingual speech communities.

Repeatable
No

Additional Notes
Previous course number: SPAN 100

Course credits: 4