PO0B121 Applied Portuguese Phonetics

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Metoděj Polášek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Silvie Špánková, Ph.D.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 10:00–11:35 L11
Prerequisites
POIA003 Fonetika a fonologie evropské portugalštiny
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 aim of the course is to develop significantly the student´s knowledge in the area of phonetics and phonology acquired during the course POIA003 Fonetika a fonologie evropské portugalštiny. At the end of the course students should be able to:
understand the relation between the articulational and acoustical aspect of the speech;
explain the main articulational and acoustical differencies between the single portuguese vowels and consonants;
apply the theoretical knowledge in the area of the portuguese phonetics to the instrumental analysis of authentical speech records;
use software for speech analysis (SpeechStation2);
apply the acquired information about relevant phonetical features in the phonological evaluation of the speech records.
Syllabus
  • Topics:
  • introduction - portuguese vocalic and consonantal system;
  • speech production and perception;
  • basic acoustics;
  • spectrograms;
  • portuguese vowel acoustics;
  • portuguese consonant acoustics;
  • application of instrumental phonology.
  • Activities:
  • analysis of authentical speech records with SpeechStation2;
  • laboratory: reflection of phonological pairs in spectrograms.
Literature
  • TLÁSKAL, Jaromír. Fonetika a fonologie současné evropské portugalštiny. 2. přeprac. vyd. V Praze: Karolinum, 2006, 302 s. ISBN 8024612283. info
  • DELGADO-MARTINS, Maria Raquel. Fonética do Português. Trinta anos de investigação. (Portuguese phonetics. Thirty years of research.). Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, 2002, 327 pp. ISBN 972-21-1453-0. info
  • MIRA MATEUS, Maria Helena. Fonética, Fonologia e Morfologia do Português (Phonetics, Phonology and Morfology of Portuguese). Lisboa: Universidade Alberta, 1990, 517 pp. ISBN 972-674-051-7. info
Teaching methods
lectures, class discussion
Assessment methods
the successfull completion of the final written test (success rate 75%) and elaboration of a small final project should prove the student´s understanding of the problematics as well as his practical skills acquired during the class.
Language of instruction
Portuguese
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Předmět se vyučuje každý lichý týden po čtyřech učebních hodinách.
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