Sounds and Speech
| Title | Ήχοι και Ομιλία / Sounds and Speech |
| Code | Γλ 536 |
| Faculty | Philosophy |
| School | English Language and Literature |
| Cycle / Level | 2nd / Postgraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600016477 |
Programme of Study: PMS THEŌRĪTIKĪS KAI EFARMOSMENĪS GLŌSSOLOGIAS
Registered students: 12
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLŌSSOLOGIA | Compulsory Course | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| Academic Year | 2018 – 2019 |
| Class Period | Winter |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Total Hours | 39 |
| Class ID | 600132951
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Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600132951
Language of Instruction
- English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
- To provide increased exposure to empirical data from different languages
- To familiarize students with various phonological models and proposals
- To enhance analytical skills, crucial to the construction and development of theoretical argumentation, such as pattern-identification, problem solving and formal reasoning
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
Phonetics studies human speech sounds as physical entities, i.e., how they are produced, transmitted and perceived by the listener. Phonology studies the function of sounds in human speech, including how they are distributed within and across syllables and words. The course will give students the opportunity to (a) enhance their knowledge on major areas of phonetics (physiology, articulation, acoustics, and perception) and phonology (sub-segmental and supra-segmental levels), (b) use the International Phonetic Alphabet and obtain the theoretical background for the description of sounds, (c) gain knowledge of acoustic data analysis using specialized software (PRAAT) and of articulatory data analysis, (d) become familiar with various phonological models and proposals. Students will be able to carry out empirical research with normal and/or pathological speech data and/or engage in theoretical argumentation, such as pattern-identification, problem solving and formal reasoning. Through selected literature and data analyses, the relationship between phonetics and phonology will also be discussed.
Educational Material Types
- Notes
- Slide presentations
- Multimedia
- Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Laboratory Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
- Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 39 | 1.4 | ✓ | ||
| Reading Assigment | 78 | 2.8 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Written assigments | 158 | 5.7 | ✓ | ||
| Total | 275 | 10 |
Student Assessment
Description
- 2 Short Problem-Solving Assignments: 24%
- 1 Group Presentation: 16%
- 1 Individual Final Paper Presentation: 20%
- 1 Final Paper: 40%
Student Assessment methods
- Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
- Performance / Staging (Formative, Summative)
- Written Exam with Problem Solving (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cairns, C. & E. Raimy (eds.). 2010. Handbook of the Syllable. Leiden: Brill.
de Lacy, P. (ed.). 2007. The Cambridge handbook of phonology. Cambridge University Press.
Goldsmith, J., J. Riggle & A. Yu (eds). 2011. The handbook of phonological theory, 2nd ed. Wiley.
Gussenhoven, C. & H. Jacobs. 2011. Understanding phonology. London: Hodder Education.
Hall, T.Α. 2007. Segmental features. In Paul de Lacy (ed.), The Cambridge handbook of phonology, 311–334. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hayes, B., R. Kirchner & D. Steriade (eds.). 2004. Phonetically based phonology. Cambridge University Press.
Inkelas, S. 2014. The Interplay of Morphology and Phonology. Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology 8. Oxford University Press.
Kager, R. 1999. Optimality Theory. Cambridge University Press.
Kager, R. 2007. Feet and metrical stress. In The Cambridge handbook of phonology, P. de Lacy (ed.), pp. 195-227. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kula, N., B. Botma & K. Nasukawa (eds.). 2011. The Continuum Companion to Phonology. Bloomsbury Publishing.
McCarthy, J. & A. Prince. 1993. Generalized alignment. Yearbook of Morphology: 79–153.
Odden, D. 2013. Introducing phonology. Second edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Oostendorp, M. van., C. Ewen, B. Hume, & K. Rice (eds.) 2011. Blackwell Companion to Phonology. Wiley.
Ryan, K. 2016. Phonological weight. Language and Linguistics Compass 10(12). 720–733. doi:10.1111/lnc3.12229.
Zec, D. 2007. The syllable. In Paul de Lacy (ed.), The Cambridge handbook of phonology, 161–194. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
SOME MORE SPECIFIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
Blumenfeld, L. 2011. Coercion and minimality. Linguistic Review 28(2). 207–240. doi:10.1515/tlir.2011.006.
Davis, S. 1999a. On the representation of initial geminates. Phonology 16: 93-104.
Davis, S. 1999b. On the Moraic Representation of Underlying Geminates: Evidence from Prosodic Morphology. In H. van der Hulst, R. Kager, and W. Zonneveld (eds.), The Prosody-Morphology Interface, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 39-61
Davis, S. 2003. The controversy over geminates and syllable weight. In Caroline Fery & Ruben van de Vijver (eds.), The Syllable in Optimality Theory, pp. 77-98. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Davis, S. 2011. Geminates. In The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth Hume & Keren Rice (eds). Chapter 37, pp. 873-897. Wiley.
Dmitrieva, O. 2012. Gemination Typology and the Perception of Consonant Duration. Ph.D. thesis, University of Stanford.
Fitzgerald, C. 2016. Morphology in the Muskogean languages. Language and Linguistics Compass 10(12). 681–700. doi:10.1111/lnc3.12227.
Gordon, M. 2005. A Perceptually-Driven Account of Onset-Sensitive Stress. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 23(3). Kluwer Academic Publishers. 595–653. doi:10.1007/s11049-004-8874-9.
Gordon, M. 2006. Syllable Weight: Phonetics, Phonology, Typology. Originally 1999 UCLA Ph.D. thesis. London/New York: Routledge.
Ham, W. 2001. Phonetic and Phonological Aspects of Geminate Timing. New York/London: Routledge.
Hayes, B. 1989. Compensatory lengthening in moraic phonology. Linguistic Inquiry 20: 253-306.
Hume, E., J. Muller & A. van Engelenhoven. 1997. Non-moraic geminates in Leti. Phonology 14: 371-402.
Kavitskaya, D. 2017. Compensatory Lengthening And Structure Preservation Revisited Yet Again. On looking into words (and beyond): Structures, Relations, Analyses , 41–58. Berlin: Language Science Press.
Kawahara, S. 2007. Sonorancy and geminacy. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers 32: 145-186.
McCarthy, J.J. & A. Prince. 1999. Faithfulness and identity in prosodic morphology. In R. Kager, H. van der Hulst & W. Zonneveld (eds.), The Prosody-Morphology Interface, pp. 218–309. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Morén, B. 1999. Distinctiveness, Coercion and Sonority: A Unified Theory of Weight. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland.
Muller, J. 2001. The Phonology and Phonetics of Word-Initial Geminates. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.
Prince, A. & P. Smolensky. 1993/2004. Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. Blackwell [first circulated as Prince & Smolensky (1993) Technical reports of the Rutgers University Center of Cognitive Science].
Ringen, C. & R. Vago. 2011. Geminates: heavy or long? In Charles Cairns & Eric Raimy (eds.), Handbook of the Syllable, pp. 155-169. Leiden: Brill.
Ryan, K. 2014. Onsets contribute to syllable weight: Statistical evidence from stress and meter. Language 90(2): 309–341.
Ryan, K. to appear. Prosodic weight: categories and continua. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Topintzi, N. 2010. Onsets: Suprasegmental and Prosodic Behaviour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Topintzi, N. & S. Davis. 2017. On the Weight of Edge Geminates. In Haruo Kubozono (ed.), Phonetics and Phonology of Geminate Consonants, 260–282. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Topintzi, N. & A. Nevins. 2017. Moraic onsets in Arrernte. Phonology 34(3): 615–650. doi:10.1017 /S0952675717000306.
Topintzi, N. & E. Zimmermann. Submitted. Containment as the key to the “heavy-vs-long” geminate debate. Linguistic Inquiry.
Tranel, B. 1991. CVC light syllables, geminates, and moraic theory. Phonology 8: 291-302.
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