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

The goal of the course is to explore the basic questions which must
be answered in order to conduct experimental investigations of
phonological structure.  This course will introduce students to a
range of theoretical issues and phonetic techniques cogent to
asking quantitative questions about phonology.  In the first part of
the course we will 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 linguistic aspects
of  phonetics, phonology, the nature of linguistic representations,
language acquisition, or speech perception and recognition.