Postgraduate Course: Current Issues in English Phonology (LASC11119)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Language Sciences |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Focusing on selected phenomena in the phonology of Present-day English, this course is specifically concerned with theory issues as they arise in relation to English. Attention is paid in equal parts to matters of representation and derivation; a recurrent theme is the interaction of the phonology with neighbouring disciplines (such as phonetics and morphology). This is an advanced course which expects students to already have a good grasp of fundamental issues in phonological theory and in the phonology of English. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| On successful completion of this course, students will be familiar with up-to-date analyses of the major phonological phenomena of English. They will have a critical grasp of current phonological theory, and they will be able to use the basics of such theory as problem-solving tools in the analysis of a range of further phenomena. |
Assessment Information
| One 4,000 word essay |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
(Indicative)
Lexical Phonology
The interaction between morphology and phonology
Abstractness in phonology
Representational Phonology
Optimality Theory
English vowel phonology
Syllabification in English
Opacity in English |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
(Indicative)
Bermúdez-Otero, R. (2011). Cyclicity. In Oostendorp, M., van, Ewen, C., Hume, E. & Rice, K. (eds). The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, vol. 4, 2019-2048. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Giegerich, H. J. (1999) Lexical strata in English: morphological causes, phonological effects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hall, T. A. (2006) ¿English syllabification as the interaction of markedness constraints.¿ Studia Linguistica 60, 1-33.
Hammond, M. (1999) The Phonology of English: a Prosodic Optimality-Theoretic Approach. Oxford: OUP |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Patrick Honeybone
Tel: (0131 6)51 1838
Email: patrick.honeybone@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Toni Noble
Tel: (0131 6)51 3188
Email: Toni.noble@ed.ac.uk |
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