Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2504212 English Studies | OB | 2 | 2 |
This is a second year course which should be taken after English Phonetics and Phonology I. It deals with the differences between the phonological Systems of English and Catalan/Spanish, focusing on suprasegmental aspects, whereas English Phonetics and Phonology I focuses on segmental aspects.
By the end of the course, the students will be able to stress English words and sentences, to use English intonation and rhythm. They will be able to do and read phonological transcription of short texts and dialogues, and to pronounce correctly English texts both in spelling and in transcription.
After finishing the course, the student will be able to:
UNIT 1. English phonotactics and syllable structure
UNIT 2. English word stress, vowel reduction and levels of prominence
UNIT 3. Stress in derived words: suffixation and compound nouns.
UNIT 4, English sentence stress and rhythm.
UNIT 5. English intonation.
UNIT 6. Phonetic transcription of short texts and dialogues and practice reading transcribed texts
Autonomous activities: Exercises, assignments, readings, individual study and participation.
Directed activities: Lectures and practical seminars.
Supervised activities: Tutoring sessions.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lectures and practical seminars. | 45 | 1.8 | 8, 1, 2, 5, 4, 6, 7, 3 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Tutorials | 22.5 | 0.9 | 7 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Exercises, assignments, readings, individual study and participation. | 57.5 | 2.3 | 8, 1, 2, 5, 4, 6, 7, 3 |
Assessment
Besides the usual participatory responsibilities (class participation, assigned readings) there will be regular homework, quizzes and assignments, a written midterm exam, as well as a final written and oral exam. The written exams will include the assigned readings. Students will be evaluated as follows:
Note:
Reassessment conditions
Procedure for Reviewing Grades Awarded. On carrying out each evaluation activity, lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded, and the date on which such a review will take place.
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
IMPORTANT: Partial or total plagiarizing will immediately result in a FAIL (0) for the plagiarized exercise. Repeated instances of plagiarism will result in a FAIL (0) of the whole subject. PLAGIARISING consists of copying text from unacknowledged sources –whether this ispartof a sentence or a whole text– with the intention of passing it off as the student’s own production. It includes cutting and pasting from internet sources, presented unmodified in the student’s own text. Plagiarizing is a SERIOUS OFFENCE. Students must respect authors’ intellectual property, always identifying the sources they may use; they must also be responsible for the originality and authenticity of their own texts.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Homework and participation | 20% | 16 | 0.64 | 8, 1, 2, 5, 4, 6, 7, 3 |
Midterm 1 | 25% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 1, 2, 5, 7, 3 |
Midterm 2 | 25% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 1, 2, 5, 4, 7 |
Oral exam | 25% | 0.5 | 0.02 | 2, 4, 7 |
assignment | 5% | 5.5 | 0.22 | 2, 7 |
Textbooks
Cruttenden, Alan. 2001. Gimson's pronunciation of English [6th edition]. London: Edward Arnold.
Finch, Diana. F. and Ortiz Lira, Hector. 1982. A course in English Phonetics for Spanish Speakers. London: Heinemann.
Kreidler, Charles.W. 1997. Describing Spoken English. An Introduction. London: Routledge. Ch. 7
Ladefoged, Peter. 1982 (1993, 2005). A Course in Phonetics. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich/Thomson Wadsworth.
Mott, Brian. 2000. English Phonetics and Phonology for Spanish Speakers. Barcelona: Edicions Universitat de Barcelona.
Roach, Peter. 1983. English Phonetics and Phonology. Cambridge: CUP.
Rogers, Henry. 2000. The Sounds of Language. An Introduction to Phonetics. London: Pearson Education Ltd.
Wells, John.C. 2006. English Intonation: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Recommended books for further practice
Estebas, Eva. 2009. Teach yourself English pronunciation: An interactive course for Spanish speakers. Netbiblos/UNED.
García-Lecumberri, María Luisa & John A. Maidment. 2000. English Transcription course. London: Arnold.
Hancock, Mark. 2003. English Pronunciation in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hewings, Martin. 2007. English Pronunciation in Use. Advanced. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rogerson, P and J.B. Gilbert 1990. Speaking clearly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Phonetic transcription
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/flash/flashin.htm
http://davidbrett.uniss.it/phonology/page%20with%20frames2.htm
General phonetics and English phonetics
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/index.html
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/contents.html
http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/
https://corpus.linguistics.berkeley.edu/acip/
Pronunciation practice and ear training
http://www.cambridge.org/elt/shiporsheep/
http://www.btinternet.com/~eptotd/vm/vowelmachine/vowelmachine.htm
No specific software will be used.