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Students learn to improve their English fluency and pronunciation; so as to increase their intelligibility and acceptability by native speaker standards; acquire detailed knowledge of articulatory and contrastive phonetics and learn to apply this to their own pronunciation skills; improve their listening comprehension and learn to transcribe sounds using phonetic symbols; learn principles of phonological analysis; learn core concepts of phonological theory.
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This course offers an introduction to the sound system of English (phonology and phonetics). It is designed to help native speakers of Dutch improve their English pronunciation, fluency and listening comprehension in a variety of ways. These closely connected skills will be discussed and practised within the context of articulatory and contrastive phonetics.
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