CURSO : ENGLISH PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY II
SIGLA : LET 1726
CRÉDITOS : 10
MÓDULOS : 02
REQUISITOS : LET 1725
CARÁCTER : MINIMUM
I. DESCRIPTION
This is a theoretical and practical course in which the prosodic behaviour of the stress, accentual, rhythmic and
intonational subsystems of English in different varieties is analysed in the light of recent applied linguistics
theory. Due attention is placed upon the relationship between the segmental and the prosodic systems of
English as they interact to possibilitate oral communication.
II. OBJECTIVES
General
1. To gain a thorough phonological understanding of the behaviour of the prosodic systems of English-
with special reference to the RP and GA varieties- in order to further prosodic competence and attain
oral proficiency with a near native level of phonological performance.
Specific
1. To become familiar with the theory of prosody.
2. To achieve a working knowledge of the English stress, accent, rhythm and intonation subsystems.
3. To recognise, reproduce and produce stress and rhythmic patterns as they manifest themselves in RP
and in GA.
4. To become proficient in the recognition, reproduction and production of the accentual and intonational
patterns of English as they occur in the chosen varieties.
5. To attain proficiency in the use of the appropriate prosodic patterns pertaining the chosen varieties.
III. CONTENTS
1. Suprasegmental versus Prosodic features. British and American studies.
2. 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.
3. Word stress. Stress and rhythm. Content words, form words. Rhythmic patterns. Stress-timed
languages, syllable-timed languages.
4. The phonology of stress in English.
5. Accent as a linguistic feature; accent as a prosodic feature. Accentual patterns in English. Nuclear and
non nuclear accent.
6. Stress, rhythm and accentual patterns. Accentuation and deaccentuation in English. Dislocation of the
nucleus.
7. Intonation: generalities, universals. Form and function of intonation.
8. The intonation of English. Intonation and emotion. Tones and Tunes. The study of English intonation.
9. The simple tones and the complex tones in English.
10. Tones: kinetic vs. static. Levels of tone. Tonetic notation. Tone, accent and tonicity.
11. Tunes in English. Tune I vs. Tune II. Combination of Tunes.
12. The intonation systems of English. Structure of the intonation unit: prehead, head, nucleus, tail.
Intonation in discourse Notation systems. Intonation correlates.
13. The teaching of intonation. Approaches and methodology. Modern trends in the teaching of intonation.
14. The nature of intonation. Segmental changes caused by prosodic features.
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IV. METHODOLOGY
- Lectures.
- Group discussions of readings.
- Tonetic marking exercises.
- Lab sessions of a remedial sort.
- Lab sessions for drillings.
- Production of an individual paper -THT- at the end of term on a given topic.
V. EVALUATION
- One oral control.
- One readings control.
- One Take Home Test.
- One mid-term written exam.
- One written and oral final examination.
VI. BIBLIOGRAFIA
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Cid Uribe, M.E. Contrastive Analysis of English and Spanish Intonation Using
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Crystal, D. Prosodic Systems and Intonation in English. Cambridge:
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MacCarthy, P.A.D. English Conversation Reader. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
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