239844 How to Handle Speech (S) (SoSe 2012)

In this course we try to develop theoretical and conceptual underpinnings for the issues of phonetics and phonology introduced in the Introduction to English linguistics. We will focus on the anatomy and physiology of speech production and segmental articulation in the first sessions. The main part of the course is reserved for a closer look at phonological principles i.e. in a wider sense the correlation of sound and meaning in a natural language. The phonemic organization of speech will be elucidated together with a differentiation of a variety of methodological perspectives on the topic, current and past. In another segment of the course the approach of generative phonology will feature as a prominent topic. Transcription principles and practice will be introduced.