CURSO : ENGLISH PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY I
TRADUCCION : FONETICA Y FONOLOGIA INGLESA I
SIGLA : LET1325
CRÉDITOS : 10
MÓDULOS : 02
REQUISITOS : LET1314
CARÁCTER : MINIMUM
DISCIPLINA : LINGUISTICS
I. DESCRIPTION
Applied and theoretically oriented course with a strong emphasis on the presentation and discussion of the
theoretical postulates that underlie the phonetic discipline as they manifest themselves in the phonological
system of English. The course also serves as a remedial instance for students who show a lower level of oral
proficiency.
II. OBJETIVES
General:
1. To apply general phonetic principles to the description, classification and production of English speech
gaining a sound understanding of the phonetic and phonological processes that underlie the RP and
GA varieties, amongst others.
Specifics:
1. To apply phonetic principles to the description of English segments.
2. To discriminate amongst the sounds of English.
3. To gain an appropriate and thorough understanding of the working of the segmental and prosodic
features of English and apply this knowledge in an efficient and proficient manner.
4. To apply acquired knowledge in the production of English speech.
III. CONTENTS
1. The linguistic sciences. Linguistics and Phonetics; their scopes and means. Language and speech.
Levels of linguistic analysis.
2. Phonetics. The areas of phonetics. The reaches of the phonetic science: speech science, speech
pathology, speech synthesis.
3. The speech chain: the speaker, the medium, the hearer. How they relate to one another in the process
of spoken communication.
4. Articulatory phonetics. The speech mechanism. The so-called organs of speech and their specific role
in the production of English segments.
5. The English segmental features: principles of description and classification. Voice and phonation.
Manner, place, force of articulation.
6. The transmission of speech. Characteristics of the medium. Acoustic phonetics. The physics of speech.
Some acoustic details of English segments.
7. Auditory Phonetics. Speech perception theories. Linguistic interference in foreign language learning.
8. An act of oral communication in English: segmental, prosodic and paralinguistic features involved.
Inventory of English segments.
9. The English vocoids: details of classification. Pure vowels and diphthongs. Inventory, frequency of
occurrence. Strong and weak forms in vowels. Allophonic variants. The RP vowels and diphthongs.
The GA vowels and diphthongs.
10. The English pure vowels in detail: front, central, back vowels; close, half-close, half-open, open
vowels. The phonology of English vowels: allophonic variants. The phonological environment and its
impact on vowels.
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11. The English diphthongs: details of classification. Frequency of occurrence. The RP diphthongs. The
GA diphthongs. Divergence and similarities in both systems.
12. The English contoids in general. Details of classification. Allophonic variants. The English contoids in
connected speech.
13. The English contoids. The plosives. Stages of articulation. Allophonic variants. The English fricatives.
14. The English affricates. Details of description and classification.
15. The English nasals. Nasalization. Syllabification. The English Laterals. Allophonic variants.
16. The English semivowels. Phonetic and phonological status.
17. Features of connected speech and their influence on vowels and consonants. Features of simplification:
elision, gradation, assimilation.
IV. METHODOLOGY
- Lectures with emphasis on the student-lecturer interaction.
- Weekly laboratory sessions.
- Phonetic and phonemic broad and narrow transcription excercises.
- Regular and systematic phonetic and phonological drilling.
- Selected readings which are further analysed and discussed in groups.
- Guided paper writing on selected topics pertaining the discipline.
- General discussion of recent phonetic theories especially those of an applied nature.
V. EVALUATION
- Paper 1.
- Oral control.
- Mid-term exam.
- Paper 2.
- Transcriptions.
- Final written and oral exam.
VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Compulsory:
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Press, 2005.
Clark, J. & C. Yallop An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. 2? Ed. Oxford,
Blackwell, 1995.
Hewings, M. English Pronunciation in Use. London, Cambridge University
Press, 2007.
I. P. A. Handbook of the International Phonetic Association. Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Garcia Lecumberri, M. L. & John Maidment
English Transciption Course. London, Hodder & Stroughton, 2000.
Giegerich, H. J. English Phonology. An introduction. Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1992.
Gimson, A. C. An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English. London,
Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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Laver, J. Principles of Phonetics. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1994.
Roach, P. English Phonetics and Phonology. 3? Ed. Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 2000.
Tatham, M. & K. Morton Speech production and perception. New York, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2007.
Tench, P. Transcribing the Sounds of English. Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 2011.
Complementary:
Abercrombie, D. Elements of General Phonetics. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University
Press, 1966.
Catford, J. C. A Practical Introduction to Phonetics. Oxford, Clarendon, 1988.
Crystal, D. Introduction to Language Pathology. London, Edward Arnold,
1980.
Denes, P. & E. Pinson The Speech Chain: The Physics and Biology of Spoken Language.
New York, Anchor Press, 1973.
Fry, D. B. The Physics of Speech. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1979.
Jones, D. The Pronunciation of English. 4? Ed. Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1956 [1909].
Katamba, F. An Introduction to Phonology. London, Longman, 1980.
Ladefoged. P. A Course in Phonetics. New York, Hartcourt Brace Jovanovic, Inc.,
1993.
Lass, R. Phonology. An introduction to basic concepts. Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Lewis, J. (ed.) Studies in General and English Phonetics. Essays in Honour of
Professor J. D. O'Connor. London, Routledge, 1995.
Lieberman, P. & Sheila E. Blumstein Speech Physiology, Speech Perception, and Acoustic Phonetics.
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988.
McCarthy, M. Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers. Cambridge, Cambridge
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McMahon, A. Lexical Phonology and the History of English. Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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