This course focuses on speech sounds in Standard Chinese and other Chinese dialects. Its aim is to explain how different Chinese dialects differ in their speech sounds - how Cantonese differs from Shanghainese, for example - and what they have in common. We also look at how different Chinese speech sounds are from the world's languages in general; and in what ways they are typical. This course is both a theoretical and practical introduction to Chinese phonetics and phonology. It teaches students about how speech sounds are made by the human vocal tract and how they are organized for linguistic purposes. Students will also learn how to quantify some important speech acoustics with a computer. Restricted to students in the MA program in International Language Education.