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Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish at their home university in the U.S.

Objective:
At the end of the course the student will know and understand the workings of the Spanish language as learned from the principal phonological theories.The student will systematically learn to characterize their speech.

General Themes:
1. Phonetics and Phonology
a. Linguistic characters. Characters as acoustic images.
b. Sounds and phonemes
2. Phonetics
a. Acoustic, articulatory, auditory and experimental phonetics
b. The phonetic alphabet in Spanish
3. Phonology
a. Principal tendencies
b. Contrasting and differentiating traits
c. Functional relationships: vowels, consonants
d. Spanish phonological system

Basic Bibliography:
Alarcos Llorach, Emilio. Fonología española. Gredos. Madrid.
Gili Gaya, Samuel. Elementos de fonética general. Gredos. Madrid.
Halle, Morris y Jakobson, Roman. Fundamentos del lenguaje. Ayuso/Pluma. Madrid.
Malmberg, Bertil. La fonética. EUDEBA. Buenos Aires.
Muljacic, Zarco Fonología. general Laia. Barcelona.