University of London, Queen Mary

This course explores the foundational concepts and theories of the creative industries. Lectures typically focus on theory mainly. Too often, little attention is paid to issues of business practice and administration. This course, addresses this gap and provides the student with the relevant theories, conceptual tools, and factual information necessary to gain an understanding of, and be able to engage critically with, the realities of managing, working, and progressing within the cultural and creative industries.

This course gives students knowledge of the main processes of phonetic articulation (mode, manner, and place of articulation, airstream mechanisms, voicing, secondary articulations (velarization, palatalization, lip-rounding etc, vowel articulation including backness, height, and roundness, plus a basic understanding of tone and pitch). It also provides students with an understanding of how those processes are used in producing speech sounds, and with an ability to represent different sounds using an international standard (the IPA). In addition, students are able to discriminate sounds aurally, and produce them from IPA script. The course first focuses on the sounds of English before examining sounds that are used in the world's languages. This course is a pre-requisite for the Introduction to Phonology course.