General and Applied Phonetics
45.03.02 In english and russian
Level of education Bachelor
Type of instruction Full-time
Duration 4 years
Programme description
- The bachelor’s programme ‘General and Applied Phonetics’ is designed to train experts in speech communication, and analysis and automatic processing of spoken language
- The programme is fundamental in terms of studying phonetics as a branch of linguistics. It also provides training in: higher mathematics; acoustics; programming; digital signal processing; statistics and probability theory; and modelling of speech processes (speech production and perception)
- Students study: the phonemic structure of a language; syllabic division and syllable functions in the phonetic structure; the phonetic structure of a text; the basic concepts of phonology; how to distinguish the problems and research methods of theoretical, applied, general and particular phonetics; written and spoken forms of speech; literary and regional pronunciation variants; and the functions of intonation in a language
- For successful training on the academic programme, applicants must know English at the level not lower than B1+ CEFR
Main courses
- General Phonetics
- Intonation Theory
- Phonetic Systems
- Practical English and French (including intonation)
- Statistics
- Digital Processing of Speech Signals
- Fundamentals of Programming
- Methods of Describing and Studying Intonational Phenomena
- Theoretical Phonetics of English
- Theoretical Phonetics of French
- Digital Processing of Speech Signals
Our advantages
- It is the only programme in Russia that includes the entire cycle of special linguistic, phonetic and mathematical disciplines compulsory for the European bachelor's degree in phonetics. It also provides: rigorous theoretical and practical training in English and French (according to the standard of language departments); perfect pronunciation; knowledge of Russian, ancient and foreign literature; translation skills in the field of phonetics and general linguistics; and skills in programming linguistic tasks.
International relations
- University of Helsinki (Finland)
- University of Jyväskylä (Finland)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany)
- Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nürnberg(Germany)
- Brno University (the Czech Republic)
Career opportunities
Practices at
- The Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskij Dom) of the Russian of Sciences
Professions
- English / French teacher
- English / French phonetics teacher
- Research associate
- Audio expert
Organisations where our graduates work
- St Petersburg University
- Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University
- St Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences North-Western Forensic Science Centre
- Apple Inc.
- Yandex
- Speech Technology Centre