SPAN 100 - Spanish Phonetics and Dialectology

Upper Division

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.

Course credits: 1

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