Phonetics is the study of human speech sounds. This course emphasizes the International Phonetic Alphabet, a standardized system of transcribing speech. Students learn to recognize, describe, transcribe, and produce speech sounds from languages all over the world. This course also covers phonetic analysis of speech, including patterns of sounds within and across languages, the acoustic properties of the speech signal, and how and why the mouth moves the way it does when we speak. Format: lecture/discussion. Requirements: participation in discussions, weekly homework, occasional quizzes, a midterm exam, and a final project. No prerequisites. No enrollment limit (expected: 40).