A2BP_FF1B Phonetics and Phonology B

Faculty of Education
Spring 2006
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jaroslav Ondráček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová
Prerequisites
The student has satisfactorily passed the colloquy test in the autumn semester dealing with issues pf general phonetics.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The lecture builds upon what was presented in the autumn semester in the area of general phonetics ,narrowing it down to English.The aim of the lecture is to lay a sufficient theoretical foundation for an insightful,focused practical training in the seminar accompanying it.The student will get an overview of the English phonological system in comparison with Czech,will be acquainted with the structure of the English syllable as well as the basics of suprasegmental phenomena (word stress,sentence stress,aspects of connected speech such as assimilation,elision and linking and intonation) as these apply to English and especially to the problems of teaching English to future Czech teachers of English.As this is the first systematic linguistics course in the students' program of study,attention will paid to the bulding of proper terminology and assistance in the gradual development of the students' linguistic thinking in the process of grasping the linguistic reality ,in this case on the spoken level.
Syllabus
  • 1.English phonological system-introduction 2.An overview of English consonants 3.An overview of English vowels 4.The phoneme and the sound 5.The stucture of the English syllable 6.Word stress in English-basic rules 7.Aspects of connected speech-linking 8.Aspects of connected speech-rhythm 9.Aspects of connected speech-assimilation 10.Aspects of connected speech-elision 11.English intonation-basic intonation patterns and their use 12.English intonation-functions in general 13.Teaching pronunciation of English to Czechs
Literature
  • ROACH,P. English Phonetics and Phonology.Cambridge:Cambridge University Press,2000.ISBN 0-521-78613-4
  • CRUTTENDEN,A.Gimson's Pronunciation of English.Arnold,1994.ISBN 0-340-70021-1
  • URBANOVA,l.A Handbook of English Phonetics and Phonology.Brno: Masarykova univerzita,Pedagogicka fakulta,1998.ISBN 80-210-1728-7
Assessment methods (in Czech)
The course finishes with a written examination test containing all aspects of the subject matter covered in an applied form in the format which will be known to students from the very beginning of the course,including a phonemic transcription of a paragraph of an English text. The passmark is 65 %.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019.
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