Phonetics and Phonology

Sound waves

Phonetics is the study of speech sounds as physical entities (their articulation, acoustic properties, and how they are perceived), and phonology is the study of the organization and function of speech sounds as part of the grammar of a language. The perspectives of these two closely related subfields are combined in laboratory phonology, which seeks to understand the relationship between cognitive and physical aspects of human speech.

Personnel

Gary Baker

Academic Professional, Dept. of Romance Languages

Phonetics, Phonology, Romance languages

Lukas Denk

Visiting Lecturer

Linguistic Typology
Morphology
Linguistic Complexity
Navajo and less-documented languages

Jon Forrest

Assistant Professor

Sociolinguistics, Language Variation and Change, Southern US Englishes, African American Language, Phonetics, Phonology

Mi-Ran Kim

Senior Lecturer

Phonetics, Korean

Keith Langston

University Professor, Department Head, Undergraduate Coordinator

Slavic prosody and the phonology/morphology interface; historical Slavic linguistics and accentology; and sociolinguistics, with a focus on questions of language and identity and language contact in the former Yugoslavia.

Margaret E. L. Renwick

Associate Professor

Phonetics, Phonology, Laboratory Phonology, Speech Acoustics, Romance Languages, English

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