MSt/MPhil course: Phonetics
and Phonology
Michaelmas Term 2016
John Coleman
NB Links to other documents relating to this course will be added
incrementally as the course progresses.
Reading
list
Week 1: Why study phonetics? Respiration and airstream mechanisms
Introduction to
Phonetics
Week 2: Phonation categories. Voice, tone, intonation, glottalization
The
vocal tract and larynx
Phonation
exercises
Week 3: Prosody 1: Pitch, Tone and Intonation
Pitch examples
Week 4. Articulation: Vowels
and consonants
Place of articulation
Stricture
Place and manner exercises
Week 6: Vowel classification in the IPA: Cardinal
Vowels
Week 7: Brain vs. mouth. Coarticulation,
multiple articulation, assimilation.
Exercises
Week 8. Prosody 2: Phonetic correlates of stress. "Everything is prosodic."