NPTEL : NOC:Phonetics and Phonology: A Broad Overview (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Shakuntala Mahanta


Lecture 1 - Articulation of consonants - 1

Lecture 2 - Articulation of consonants - 2

Lecture 3 - Articulation of vowels

Lecture 4 - Language endangerment and linguistic diversity

Lecture 5 - Linguistic diversity - consonants in the languages of the world

Lecture 6 - Linguistic diversity - consonants and vowels in the languages of the world

Lecture 7 - Linguistic diversity - conclusion

Lecture 8 - Acoustic analysis: sound waves

Lecture 9 - Acoustic analysis: source filter theory and spectrograms

Lecture 10 - Acoustic analysis: vowels and formants

Lecture 11 - Acoustic analysis: formant calculation

Lecture 12 - Perceptual cues, variability in the speech signal, acoustic-phonetic invariance

Lecture 13 - Segmentation problem, categorical perception, cp in infants and animals

Lecture 14 - Measuring perceptual distinctiveness, multidimensional scaling, speech perception theories

Lecture 15 - development of the ideas of phonemes and features

Lecture 16 - phonemes as categories, phonemes in different languages, allophonic rules

Lecture 17 - problems in phonemic analysis, context and phonotactics

Lecture 18 - Psychological reality of phonemes

Lecture 19 - Distinctive features and natural classes

Lecture 20 - Phonological rule application

Lecture 21 - Distinctive features, feature economy and markedness

Lecture 22 - Morphophonological rules

Lecture 23 - Syllables

Lecture 24 - Stress

Lecture 25 - Phonetics and phonology of intonation, microprosody, stylization

Lecture 26 - Nuclear tone, pitch accent and boundary tones

Lecture 27 - Focus, givenness