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Textbooks:
Victoria Fromkin-Robert Rodman-Nina Hyam
An Introduction to Language, Seventh Edetion
Publisher: Michael Rosenberg, 2003
Course Description and objectives:
This course aims at giving great details about the role of English Segmentals (consonants, vowels and diphthongs) and Suprasegmentals (stress and intonation) in making meaningful utterances. It also aims at guiding students into the domain of generative approach to phonological analysis. The concept of the phoneme, phonotactics, phonological processes and distinctive features analysis are also presented. Familiarizing students with the sound structures and sound patterns of Modern English and some other languages from different language families and helping them discern the relationship between phonetics and phonology is another main objective of this course.
Course Plan:
Students are required to actively participate in class discussions and activities and creative in their ideas and persuasive in their arguments.
Description of topics per week:
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Topics to to covered
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Week 1
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Chapter 7: Phonology: The Sound Patterns of Language /
- The Pronunciation of Morphemes:
- The Pronunciation of Plurals:
- Exceptions to the plural Rule
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Week 2
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- Allomorphy in English: further Example
- Allomorphy in other languages
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Week 3
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- Phonemes: The Phonological Units of Language:
- Vowel Nasalization in English
- Minimal Pairs in ASL
- Complimentary Distribution
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Week 4
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- Distinctive Features:
- Feature Values:
- Predictability of Redundant (Nondistinctive) Feature
- More on Redundancies
- Unpredictability of Phonemic Features
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Week 5
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- Natural Classes:
- Feature Specifications for American English
Consonants and Vowels
- The Rules of Phonology:
- Assimilation Rules
- Feature Changing Rules
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Week 6
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- Dissimilation Rules
- Feature Addition Rules
- Segment Deletion and Addition Rules
- Movement (Metathesis) Rules
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Week 7
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- From One to Many and From Many to One
- The Function of Phonological Rules
- Slips of the tongue: Evidence for Phonological Rules
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Week 8
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- Prosodic Phonology:
- Syllable Structure
- Word Stress
- Sentence and Phrase Stress
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Week 9
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- Intonation
- Sequential Constraints:
- Lexical Gaps
- Sentence and Phrase Stress
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| Week 10 |
- Phonological Analysis: Discovering Phonemes |
Grading Policy:
| Quiz (1) |
30% |
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Quiz (2)
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30%
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Final exam
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40%
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Total
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100%
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