239824 How To Handle Speech (S) (WiSe 2012/2013)

Course Description

This course takes a theoretical approach to analysing speech. It will provide students with in-depth knowledge of speech production. To this end speech anatomy and speech physiology will be dealt with. Students will then be invited to reflect on issues relating to the transmission and perception of sounds: two aspects that also need to be emphasized alongside speech production for the study of phonetics to be considered complete. The course will then provide a close look at phonological principles i.e. how the sounds of natural language function and relate to each other. Methodological considerations will also be dealt with, with a view to elucidating concepts in phonological theory past and present. Specific attention will be paid to the generative theory of phonology as we focus on underlying representations, phonological rules and derivations as well as syllable structure.

Requirements for participation, required level

Prerequisites

Introduction to Linguistics

Bibliography

Recommended Readings

Chomsky, N., and Halle, M. 1968. The sound pattern of English. New York: Harper & Row.
Clark, J., C. Yallop & J. Fletcher. 2007. 3rd ed. (1st edition 1990) An introduction to phonetics and phonology. Oxford, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers.
Cruttenden, A. 1997, 2nd edn. (1 st edn 1986). Intonation. Cambridge : CUP.
Cruttenden, A. 2008. Gimson’s pronunciation of English. 7 th ed. (1st edition 1962). London: Hodder Education.
Gimson, A. C. 1970. 2nd edition. (1st edition 1962). An introduction to the pronunciation of English. London. Edward Arnold.
Ladd, Robert D. 1996. Intonational phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ladefoged, P. & K. Johnson 2010 (6th revised edition of the 1975 edn of: A course in Phonetics. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth.
Roach, P. 2000. 3rd edition. (1st edition 1983). English phonetics and phonology: a practical course. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wells. J.C. 1982. Accents of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wells, J. C. 2008. 3rd edn. (1st edn 1990). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. Essex: Pearson Education Limited.