Syllabus
1. Evolutionary periodization of phonetics, its links towards linguistics and other disciplines
2. Approaches to phonetic issues in the pre-scientific era.
3. Historical milestones in segmental and suprasegmental description.
4. National schools in Europe and the United States.5. Foundation of a phonetics institute in Prague; key figures in modern Czech phonetics.
6. International Congresses of Phonetic Sciences.
Annotation
The goal of the course is to provide a historical synopsis of phonetic sciences in the wide sense of the term (phonetics, physiology, acoustics, phonology) from the Antiquity to the 20th century, with regard to the internal development of the discipline, its main representatives and institutions.