Phonetics Departments at Universities

There is a Wikipedia article with this title here. It simply contains the names of eight institutions, and a few links to other places. Most of those listed don’t actually have a Department of Phonetics. The list raises an interesting question: in my young days there were many universities, particularly in Europe, which had departments with the title ‘Department of Phonetics’. I studied in one (UCL), but never worked in one – I taught phonetics in the Department of Linguistic Science at Reading University and in the Department of Linguistics and Phonetics at the University of Leeds. All the ones I used to know have now been absorbed into bigger units with longer titles, and I really wonder how many Departments of Phonetics actually exist anywhere in the world. Perhaps someone could put me right on this? The nearest I can see in this list is Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (Poland), which I have had the pleasure of visiting, but that is a Department of Phonetics and Phonology. If you Google ‘Department of Phonetics’, the only names that come up are the University of Turku , Finland and the University of Zagreb, Croatia, neither of which appears in the WP article’s list. There is a Department of Phonetics and Spoken English at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.

I am going to propose that the current WP article is of no use and gives a misleading impression of the place of phonetics in the academic world. If someone would produce a list of universities or institutions which teach phonetics it might be worth publishing that as a WP article, but it would be difficult to decide which institutions should be included. Would we list places which just teach one module on Speech Communication? A one-semester class on Pronunciation Teaching?