Speech science and Phoneticsfull time

  • Master of Arts

    Master
    Degree

  • 4 semesters

    Standard period of study (amount)

  • Marburg

    Location

Overview and admission

Study Type

graduate

Admission semester

Winter Semester only

Area of study
  • Linguistics
  • Phonetics
  • Rhetoric
  • Speech Science
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)

Lecture period
  • 22.04.2025 - 25.07.2025
  • 13.10.2025 - 13.02.2026

Application deadlines

Winter semester (2025/2026)
  • Application deadline for Germans and inhabitants

    The application deadlines for study programmes at the Philipps-Universität Marburg can be found on our university homepage under the following link: https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/studium/vor-dem-studium/bewerben-und-einschreiben/bewerbung-formalia-fristen/bewerbungsfristen

  • Deadlines for International Students from the European Union

    The application deadlines for study programmes at the Philipps-Universität Marburg can be found on our university homepage under the following link: https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/studium/vor-dem-studium/bewerben-und-einschreiben/bewerbung-formalia-fristen/bewerbungsfristen

  • Deadlines for international students from countries that are not members of the European Union

    The application deadlines for study programmes at the Philipps-Universität Marburg can be found on our university homepage under the following link: https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/studium/vor-dem-studium/bewerben-und-einschreiben/bewerbung-formalia-fristen/bewerbungsfristen

  • Enrollment deadline for Germans and foreign students

    The application deadlines for study programmes at the Philipps-Universität Marburg can be found on our university homepage under the following link: https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/studium/vor-dem-studium/bewerben-und-einschreiben/bewerbung-formalia-fristen/bewerbungsfristen

Tuition fee

Fees

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

Languages of instruction

Main language

German

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