FF:OJ528 Functional Phonology - Course Information
OJ528 Functional Phonology
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2018
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Aleš Bičan, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts - 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
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- Course objectives
- The course wants to introduce students to functional phonology of a tradition different to the phonology of Prague School, namely with a phonological theory of André Martinet and his followers. The development of phonology followed a different path than the development of phonology in post-WWII Czechoslovakia, although both built upon theories of Nikolai S. Trubetzkoy and Roman Jakobson. Martinet’s thoughts had a great impact on Jan W. F. Mulder who, together with Sándor G. J. Hervey, came up with a linguistic approach known as Axiomatic Functionalism. The course will present basic concepts of André Martinet and Jan Mulder.
- Syllabus
- 1. Functional phonology in the historical context
- 2. Functions of language
- 3. Phoneme, allophone, phonological form
- 4. Oppositions
- 5. Neutralization and archiphoneme
- 6. Distribution of phonemes, distributional unit
- 7. Suprasegmental features (accent, tones, diaereme)
- 8. Application of the theory of a concrete language
- Literature
- Mulder, J. W. F. 1968. Sets and Relations in Phonology. Oxford.
- AKAMATSU, Tsutomu. Japanese phonology : a functional approach. Muenchen: Lincom Europa, 2000, xxii, 373. ISBN 3895865443. info
- TRUBECKOJ, Nikolaj Sergejevič. Grundzüge der Phonologie. 7. Aufl. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1989, 297 s. ISBN 3-525-26401-1. info
- AKAMATSU, Tsutomu. The theory of neutralization and the archiphoneme in functional phonology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1988, xxi, 533 s. ISBN 90-272-3537-6. info
- TRUBECKOJ, Nikolaj Sergejevič. Osnovy fonologii. Translated by Aleksandr Aleksejevič Cholodovič. Moskva: Izdatel'stvo inostrannoj literatury, 1960, 371 s. info
- MARTINET, André. Phonology as functional phonetics. London: Oxford University Press, 1949, 40 p. info
- TRUBECKOJ, Nikolaj Sergejevič. Grundzüge der Phonologie. Prague: Cercle linguistique de Prague, 1939, 271 s. URL info
- Teaching methods
- lectures, class discussion, homework
- Assessment methods
- Oral examination, discussion over problems dealt with in the class, discussion over texts assigned for reading; homework tasks must be fulfilled
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2018, recent)
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