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Phonology aims to identify the ways in which linguistic sounds are organized and manipulated by a system of mental representation and how this system interfaces with perceptual and articulatory subsystems. The study of those subsystems, and of the acoustic means for the transmission of sound, are the proper domain of phonetics. The JHU faculty and our graduates have made revolutionary contributions to phonological theory. Our investigations in phonology are strongly theory-driven, including much formal analysis, coupled with experimental investigation. Here, our research methods include those of theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, psychological and neuropsychological investigation of normal and impaired individuals, studies of acquisition. Phonetic research at Hopkins complements these studies through instrumental work, such as acoustic analyses of speech sounds, perceptual experiments with neurologically intact human subjects, and real-time imaging (e.g., ultrasound) of speech articulation. |
