SPANISH PHONETICS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: SPANISH 225 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the speech sounds of Spanish using articulatory/anatomical features of speech organs and their phonological organization using proper terms and conventions in phonetics and phonology. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Produce intermediate level phonetic transcriptions of controlled texts using phonetic symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Audience: Undergraduate 3. Apply knowledge of phonetics to improve listening comprehension, accuracy in pronunciation, spelling and accentuation. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Explain differences between varieties of Spanish, defined regionally, socially or contextually, based on phonetic characteristics of certain speech sounds. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Value how speaker intuitions and production and perception of speech sounds may inform linguistic research. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the speech sounds of Spanish using articulatory/anatomical features of speech organs and their phonological organization using proper terms and conventions in phonetics and phonology. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Produce intermediate level phonetic transcriptions of controlled texts using phonetic symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Audience: Undergraduate 3. Apply knowledge of phonetics to improve listening comprehension, accuracy in pronunciation, spelling and accentuation. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Explain differences between varieties of Spanish, defined regionally, socially or contextually, based on phonetic characteristics of certain speech sounds. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Value how speaker intuitions and production and perception of speech sounds may inform linguistic research. Audience: Undergraduate