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The English Sound System

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Course Information

Subject code

AL

Subject Code Description

Applied Linguistics

Course Number

3110

Course Title

The English Sound System

Catalog Subject and Course Number

AL 3110

Catalog Title

The English Sound System

Course Description (Combined)

Prerequisite: C- or better in AL 2000 (concurrent enrollment allowed)

An introductory course in the sound system of English. Topics include: articulatory phonetics, phonetic transcription, sound variation, syllable structure, word and sentence stress, intonation, and phonological rules. The focus is on the pronunciation problems ESOL students might have acquiring English.

Credit: 3