230407 The sociolinguistics of spoken language (S) (WiSe 2019/2020)

We will discuss how sociolinguistic variation relates to spoken language data, focussing largely on phonetics and phonology. There will be plenty of room for practical work in this class: You will record your own sample data and analyse this with acoustic phonetic methods, and we will also use existing corpora.

It is assumed that students have at least a basic understanding of phonetics and phonology. Please read the phonetics and phonology section from a recent "Introduction to Linguistics" textbook before the first session to make sure of this.