to give students a thorough training in the skills of articulatory and impressionistic phonetics
to teach production of the sounds of the IPA chart
to teach skills and principles of impressionistic listening and phonetic transcription.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites
Satisfactory completion of the Autumn term assessment for Phonetics and Phonology.
Programme
Programme
Contact hours
Three contact hours per week.
Teaching programme
At least one of the three hours will be given over to phonetic production and perception; the rest of the time will be a mixture of lectures, workshops and seminars.
Subject content
Be familiar with a wide range of sounds and the languages in which they are used, as well as the terminology and notation for their description
Understand the mechanisms of the production of the sounds of languages and use phonetic arguments in reasoning
Be able to produce, perceive and transcribe a wide range of speech sounds including many less common ones
Familiarity with some of the main topics in current practice in phonetics
Ability to work with data in a hands-on way
Academic and graduate skills
Be able to read and use technical texts
Small group work
Oral and written presentation of technical material and arguments
Confidence in self-presentation (through the production of the sounds of the IPA chart)
Teaching materials
Laver, John (1994) Principles of Phonetics. Cambridge, CUP.
Ladefoged, Peter & Ian Maddieson (1996) Sounds of the world’s languages. Oxford: Blackwell.
Assessment
Assessment
Formative work
Written work due in fortnightly
Oral/aural production weekly
Assessment
Summative assessment consists of 3 components:
Oral production: 10 mins Weight: 35%
Aural (transcription): 30 mins Weight: 35%
Essay Weight: 30%
About this module
Module name Articulatory and impressionistic phonetics