About the lecture

In this module, we think about how people actually understand speech, focusing in particular on: (i) the speech chain; (ii) the distinction between phonetics and phonology; (iii) the distinction between phonetics and phonology on the one hand, and semantics and pragmatics on the other.

About the lecturer

Prof. Jane Setter is Professor of Phonetics at the University of Reading. Her main research interests are English phonetics and phonology, English pronunciation and intelligibility (including in World and learner Englishes), phonology in atypical speech populations (specifically Williams syndrome), and phonetics and phonology in Hong Kong English. She is probably best known as co-editor of the eighteenth edition of the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary (2011).