P: L541 or other introductory background in acoustic and articulatory
phonetics or permission of instructor.

This course introduces students to the basic questions which must be
answered in order to conduct experimental investigations of
phonological structure, including a range of theoretical issues and
phonetic techniques cogent to asking quantitative questions about
phonology.  In the first part of the course, we read and discuss a
number of landmark papers, and in the second part of the course we
will step through the process of formulating hypotheses concerning
phonological specification and designing and piloting an experiment
to test these hypotheses.  The course should be useful to those
interested in phonetics, phonology, the nature of linguistic
representations, language acquisition, or speech perception and
production.