Undergraduate Course: Modern English Phonology 1 (LASC10005)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Language Sciences |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
This course provides students with the opportunity to investigate many of the fundamental and characteristic features of the phonology of English. 'English' naturally needs to be understood as a series of autonomous, yet related accents, and this course considers to what extent accents share common characteristics and to what extent, and in what ways, they can be said to differ, focusing on accents from Scotland, England and North America (and briefly considering aspects of Southern-Hemisphere Englishes and Hiberno-English). It will consider issues in the 'phonemic' inventories of these accents, the nature and type of their allophonic processes, the use of distinctive features to characterise their contrasts and natural classes, their syllabic structure and phonotactic constraints, issues in word, foot and phrasal stress assignment, and issues which arise when processes seem to interact with both (i) other processes in ordering relationships and with (ii) morphological, syntactic and lexical structure.
In doing this we will consider those aspects of general phonological theory which are both relevant to and necessary for the explanation of the data. We will consider facets of the nature of phonological generalisations, of their formalisation as 'rules' and 'constraints', of the ways in which they can be thought to interact, and of the extent to which they can be thought to have exceptions. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites |
Visiting students should have at least 3 Linguistics/Language Sciences courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses. |
| Prospectus website |
http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/visiting-exchange/courses |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | 11:10 - 13:00 | | | | Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | 12:10 - 13:00 | |
| First Class |
Week 1, Wednesday, 11:10 - 13:00, Zone: Central. Rooms 3.10/3.11, Dugald Stewart Building |
| Additional information |
Class locations:
Rooms 3.10/3.11, Dugald Stewart Building
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- explain the issues involved in the description of the phonological systems of English accents;
- analyse key phenomena in the phonology of English using the fundamental tools of phonological theory;
- investigate how general issues in phonological theory hold-up when confronted with a detailed investigation of data from English;
- progress onto the study of current live research questions in English phonology and in general language-universal phonology. |
Assessment Information
| The course will be assessed by essays, projects and/or other assignments as determined by the Course Organiser. |
| Please see Visiting Student Prospectus website for Visiting Student Assessment information |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Patrick Honeybone
Tel: (0131 6)51 1838
Email: patrick.honeybone@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Ms Stephanie Fong
Tel:
Email: S.Fong@ed.ac.uk |
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