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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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| English Phonetics |
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| Identifying Data | 2018/19 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | English Phonetics | Code | 613G03023 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Third | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| The speech chain and phonetics | The speech chain and speech technologies The speech chain and teaching Speech technologies |
| Theoretical and descriptive study of phonetics and phonology of English. | Contextualization. RP Estuary English |
| Speech: the production process |
The acquisition of phonology in L1 and L2: acquisition, interaction, and methods. |
| Anatomy and physiology of speech production. Speech organs. | Anatomy and Physiology Anatomical basis of phonation Physiological basis of phonation Definition of voice. Voice types. |
| Articulatory phonetics | Vowel sounds Consonant sounds The sounds of RP The sounds of American English The sounds of Spanish |
| Description and classification of English sounds: vowels, consonants, diphthongs, triphthongs. | Phonetic transcription Error correction Computer assisted Phonetics |
| Acoustic Phonetics: Sounds, Sound Waves, spectrograms. | Analysis of the acoustic signal and processing Acoustic properties of sounds Analysis and manipulation of sounds |
| The structure of language: phonemes, allophones stress, rhythm, intonation. | Prosody, stress, tempo and rhythm: General concepts, linguistic function and classification Intonation: general concepts, suprasegments, melody and its representation |
| Strong and weak forms: | Neutralization of weak forms phonetic variations variations allophonic Variations place Nasalización and labialisation Elision Liaison Joint |
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