CURSO : ENGLISH PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY II
TRADUCCION : FONETICA Y FONOLOGIA INGLESAII
SIGLA : LET1326
CRÉDITOS : 10
MÓDULOS : 02
REQUISITOS : LET1325
CARÁCTER : MINIMUM
DISCIPLINA : LINGUISTICS
I. DESCRIPTION
Theoretical and practical course that takes the students from a post intermediate to an advanced level of oral
proficiency in the production of English speech. Special attention is paid to the oral performance so as to
achieve a highly advanced level of proficient oral performance particularly in terms of those features of a
prosodic sort that accompany the segmental features of the language.
II. OBJETIVES
General:
1. To attain a sound understanding of the prosodic behaviour of the English system especially in the cases
of the GA and RP varieties so as to foster prosodic competence and attain a near native level of
prosodic proficiency.
Specifics:
1. To get acquainted with prosodic theory.
2. To get to know in depth the behaviour of the stress, accent, rhythm and intonation subsystems as they
manifest themselves in English.
3. To recognise, reproduce and produce the stress, accentual, rhuthmic and intonational patterns of
English as they occur in RP and GA.
4. To produce with a near native level of proficiency the prosodic patterns of English as they occur in the
varieties under study.
5. To recognise and reproduce prosodic patterns of other varieties of English.
III CONTENTS
1. Stress in English: main stress, secondary stress, level stress, shifting stress. Stress for meaning. Stress
for emphasis. Stress patterns. Stressed and unstressed syllables. Strong and weak forms. Details of
stress phonological behavior.
2. Word stress. Stress and rhythm. Content words, form words. Rhythmic patterns. Stress and grammar.
Stress placement in discourse. New vs. old information. Minus vs. plus stress. Stress-timed languages,
syllable-timed languages. Stress in English. Stress in Spanish.
3. The phonology of stress in English. Stress marking. Stress notation. European systems of notation.
American system of notation. Comparison.
4. Accent as a linguistic feature; accent as a prosodic feature. Accentual patterns in English. Nuclear and
non nuclear accent. Word stress vs. sentences accent. Stress, rhythm and accentual patterns.
Accentuation and deaccentuation in English. Dislocation of the nucleus.
5. Intonation: generalities, universals. Studies on Intonation: European studies. American views. Form
and function of intonation.
6. The intonation of English. Intonation and emotion. Tones and Tunes. The study of English
intonation.Intonation drilling. Recognition of Tones. The simple tones and the complex tones in
English.
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7. Tones: kinetic vs. static. Levels of tone. Tonetic notation. Tone, accent and tonicity.
8. Tunes in English. Tune I vs. Tune II. Combination of Tunes.
9. The intonation systems of English. Structure of the intonation unit: prehead, head, nucleus, tail.
Intonation in discourse Notation systems. Intonation correlates.
10. The teaching of intonation. Approaches and methodology. Modern trends in the teaching of intonation.
11. The nature of intonation. Segmental changes caused by prosodic features. Prosody and discourse. The
role of the Pause in Discourse. Prosodic features from a Holistic perspective.
IV. METHODOLOGY
- Lectures in which lecturer-student interaction is fostered.
- Oral presentations centered on chosen topics on the subject and prepared by the students.
- Critical discussion of given selected readings.
- Weekly laboratory sessions.
- Interlinear notation practice.
- Continued and permanent assessment of progress via tests, exams and others.
V. EVALUATION
- Paper 1.
- Oral control.
- Mid-term exam.
- Paper 2.
- Transcriptions.
- Final written and oral exam.
VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Compulsory:
Bartels, C. The Intonation of English statements and questions. New York and
London, Garland, 1999.
Brown, G., K. L. Currie & J. Kenworthy Questions of Intonation. London, Croom Helm, 1980.
Cid Uribe, M. E. Contrastive Analysis of English and Spanish Intonation Using
Computer Corpora - A preliminary Study. Unpublished Ph.D.
thesis. University of Leeds, 1989.
Couper-Kuhlen, E. An Introduction to English Prosody. London, Edward Arnold,
1986.
Couper-Kuhlen, E. & M. Selting (eds.) Prosody in Conversation: Interactional Studies. Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Cruttenden, A. Intonation. 1? Ed. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Crystal, D. Prosodic Systems and Intonation in English. Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1969.
Fox, A. Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure: The Phonology of
Suprasegmentals. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Tatham, M. & Katherine Morton Speech Production and Perception. Hampshire, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2006.
Tench, P. The Intonation Systems of English. London, Cassell, 1996.
Complementary:
Hirst, D & A. Di Cristo (eds.) Intonation Systems: A survey of Twenty Languages. Camridge,
CUP, 1998.
Ladd, R. Intonational Phonology. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1996.
Ladefoged. P. A Course in Phonetics. New York, Hartcourt Brace Jovanovic, Inc.,
1993.
Laver, J. Principles of Phonetics. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1994.
Lehiste, I. Suprasegmentals. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The M.I.T. Press,
1970.
MacCarthy, P. A. D. English Conversation Reader. 2? Impression. London, Longmans,
Green and Co. Ltd., 1965.
O'Connor, J. D. & G. F. Arnold Intonation of Colloquial English. 2? Ed. London, Longman, 1973.
Ortiz-Lira, H. Word stress and sentence accent. Santiago, Universidad
Metropolitana de Ciencias Pedagogicas, Coleccion Monografias
Tematicas, 1998.
Roach, P. English Phonetics and Phonology. 2? Ed. Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1991.
Stannard Allen, W. Living English Speech. 2? Impression. London, Longmans, Green
and Co. Ltd., 1966.
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