Programme
Programme
Contact hours
The course lasts for one term. There is a 2 hour lecture and a 1 hour practical each week.
Teaching programme
Subject content:
- By the end of this module, students will be able to:
- find and/or collect data for use as input to phonological analysis
- establish phonological generalisations based on different types of data
- develop an explanatory account of the phonological generalisation(s) in a set of data
- evaluate competing explanatory accounts of phonological generalisations
Academic and graduate skills:
In addition to acquiring subject-specific skills and knowledge, students who finish this module will also be able to:
- argue more convincingly for their position in debates using empirical data
- present themselves better in writing and speech
- critically evaluate research papers based both on their logical structure and empirical grounding
Teaching materials
Selected readings from:
- van Oostendorp, Marc, et al., eds. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology. Volumes 1-3. John Wiley & Sons, 2011.