Speech science and Phonetics University of Marburg

Study Type

graduate

Admission semester

Winter Semester only

Focus

Vocalisation, Rhetoric, Aesthetics, Analysing Speech, Methods, Forensics, Neurophonetics, Linguistic and Phonetic Training

Target group

Graduates of a professionally relevant Bachelor's degree in the field of Linguistics, Phonetics, Speech Science or with proof of a comparable domestic or foreign professional qualification.

Annotation

General information: The Master´s degree programme in "Speech Science and Phonetics" is interdisciplinary. Speech science as the theory of oral communication affects all areas of orality and vocalism. Speech science is a small subject throughout Germany - the Marburg location is characterised by its special coupling of theory, didactics and practice, in particular rhetorical communication. The field of phonetics deals with human communication primarily on a physiological, acoustic, perceptual and linguistic level. The objects of investigation are the individual (speech) sounds as well as the accent, sentence melody or the complex neuronal control processes on which the speech production is based. Research focuses Speech Science: The degree course has an interdisciplinary structure and touches on all areas of orality: - Rhetoric, especially argumentation and conversational rhetoric - Knowledge communication - Didactics of communication - Voice, vocabulary and elocution Phonetics with the main areas of application: - Forensics - Linguistics - Clinical phonetics - Language technology - Neurophonetics (neurocognition of sound processing)

Admission modus

Without admission restriction

Admission requirements (Link)

Admission requirements

Assessment of aptitude procedures: https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/studium/studienangebot/master/phonetikma/efv-speechsiencema https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/studium/studienangebot/master/phonetikma/phonetikma

Fees

Currently, the German federal state of Hesse does not charge tuition fees.

Main language

German