Dr. Jean-Michel Filippi
Year I, Semester I
This course familiarises students with phonetic and phological analyses of language, and focuses on minority languages and dialects, especially in the Cambodian context. Students learn to analyse various writing systems recently developed to write down the oral literature of Cambodian minority dialects, and learn how to describe both Khmer and minority languages. They do this by following two approaches, a practical approach which uses phonetics to describe non-Khmer languages, and a more theoretical approach which utilizes recent developments in phonetical and phonological theories. Students examine how sounds are produced and transmitted, and learn to describe sounds in formal language environments.