Course Details
Country:
Spain
Institution:
Universidad de Zaragoza
Course Title:
English Phonetics and Phonology II
Course Number:
27821
Course Description:
Section I: INTRODUCTION (lectures). Topic 1. Language and speech: the units of speech (discourse/connected speech, utterance, tone unit, syllable, segment, articulatory feature). Topic 2. Defining allophony: an examination of the main phonetic and phonological features that characterise English consonants and vowels; graphic representation in allophonic transcription (notation). Topic 3. Defining prosody: prosody vs. suprasegmentals, dimensions of prosody. Topic 4. Defining the syllable: physical definitions (the sonority hierarchy), phonological definitions; syllable structure; syllabification; phonotactic possibilities. Topic 5. Defining stress (word stress). Placement of stress. Stress patterns. Topic 6. Defining accent (nuclear sentence stress). Placement of accent (accentuation). Beat adjustment, classes of beat adjustment. The nuclear stress rule (NSR): broad focus. Exceptions to the NSR: broad focus with fronted accent, narrow focus with fronted and delayed accent. Topic 7. Describing rhythm in speech: the foot. Topic 8. Describing intonation: the intonation unit (tone unit/group/intonation group), structure of intonation (tonality, tonicity, tone), meaning
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
INTS 399
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