MSt/MPhil course: Phonetics
and Phonology
Michaelmas Term 2018
John Coleman
NB Links to other documents relating to this course will be added
incrementally as the course progresses. The plan below only sets out classes
for 7 weeks, but in practice it tends to stretch out to take 8 weeks to
deliver, so we'll see how it goes.
Reading
list
Week 1: Why study phonetics? Respiration and airstream mechanisms (handout)
Week 2: Phonation categories. Voice, tone, intonation, glottalization
Week 3: Prosody 1: Pitch, Tone and Intonation
Week 4: Articulation: Vowels
and consonants
Week 5: Vowel classification in the IPA: Cardinal
Vowels
Week 6: Brain vs. mouth. Coarticulation,
multiple articulation, assimilation.
Week 7-8. “Everything is prosodic.”