Postgraduate Course: Phonological Theory and English Phonology (LASC11147)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course combines a consideration of some classic and contemporary issues in phonological theory with an investigation of the phonology of a number of varieties of English. |
| Course description |
What is the phonology of English? Should we even talk of 'the phonology of English', or should we talk of 'the phonologies of Englishes'? This course considers and reconsiders many of the major phonological phenomena found in varieties of English (segmental inventories, syllabic structure, realisational processes, stress and foot-based generalisations) in order to better understand them. In doing this, we will always have an eye on (i) the issues that arise when we deal with the variation that exists between the 'varieties' of a 'language', and (ii) general issues in theoretical phonology. We will thus investigate both a number of characteristics of the accents considered (mainly from England, Scotland and North America) and also a number of crucial concepts from phonological theory (opacity and rule ordering, featural phonology, extreme phonotactics, foot-structure).
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 0 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 33,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
163 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
1. Assignment = phonological analysis of a passage of English
- 40% of marks c.1000 words
2. Essay
- 60% of marks c.3000 words |
| Feedback |
Feedback will be given most weeks to hand-in non-assessed tasks. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student 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
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Reading List
Reading from texts such as the following, as advised through Learn:
Giegerich, H. J. (1992) English Phonology: an Introduction. Cambridge: CUP.
Carr, P. (2013) English Phonetics and Phonology. Second edition. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
McMahon, A. (2001) An Introduction to English Phonology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
McCully, C. (2009) The Sound Structure of English: an Introduction. Cambridge: CUP.
Harris, J. (1994) English Sound Structure. Oxford: Blackwell.
Spencer, A. (1996) Phonology. Oxford: Blackwell.
Gussenhoven, C. & Jacobs, H. (2011) Understanding Phonology. Third edition. London: Hodder.
Gussmann, E. (2002) Phonology: Analysis and Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ewen, C. & Hulst, H. van der (2001) The Phonological Structure of Words. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hammond, M. (1999) The Phonology of English: a Prosodic OT Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Objective description and analysis of empirical phenomena, critical evaluation of published analyses, essay writing
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| 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)50 2692
Email: Toni.noble@ed.ac.uk |
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