|
Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
 Subjects |
| English Phonetics |
| Contents |
|
|
|
| Identifying Data | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | English Phonetics | Code | 613G03023 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
|
|||||||||||||
| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Third | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. Phonetics and phonology as linguistic disciplines | 1.1. Basic concepts and tools. Definition and description 1.2. Acoustic Phonetics 1.3. Auditive Phonetics 1.4. Articulatory Phonetics |
| 2. Speech organs | 2.1. The anatomy of speech 2.2. The physiology of speech |
| 3. Speech sounds and their graphic representation | 3.1. Vowels and consonants: functional and articulatory classifications 3.2. IPA and its representation. Classification of speech sounds |
| 4. English consonants: description and graphic representation | 4.1. Descriptive parameters: manner of articulation, place of articulation, action of the vocal cords 4.2. Types of articulation: double articulation; primary and secondary articulation 4.3. Allophonic variation |
| 5. English vowels: description and graphic representation | 5.1. Vowels 5.2. Diphthongs and triphthongs 5.3. Related aspects |
| 6. Syllables, words and connected speech. | 6.1. Syllable: definition and structure 6.2. Connected speech phenomena: Gradation. Assimilation. Elision. Juncture. Liaison. |
| 7. Stress and intonation | 7.1. Stress 7.2. Intonation |
| 8. The accents of English | 8.1. Great Britain: Received Pronunciation, Estuary English 8.2. U.S.A.: American Standard English, African-American English, American- Indian English 8.3. Australia and New Zealand 8.4. Accents of English as a second language |
|
