MSt/MPhil course: Phonetics and Phonology
Michaelmas Term 2011
http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/jcoleman/mst_mphil_phonology_index_mt2011.html
John Coleman
Weeks 1-4 (2 classes, 3 hours per week) are required for all MSt/1st
year MPhils, and will provide a good grounding for phonetics/phonology
preparation for Paper A.
Weeks 5-8 also support Paper A, and are essential grounding for
students taking Paper B(i) Phonetics and Phonology and B(vii)
Experimental Phonetics.
Reading list (NB this will be built up incrementally as the course progresses)
Weeks 1-4:
Foundation Course: Introduction to Phonetics.
(Undergraduate course, suitable for all beginners.) Mondays at 12,
Taylorian Hall.
Phonetics and Phonology lectures, Mondays 3-5 pm, Centre for Linguistics and Philology room 206
Week 1: Relationships between Phonology and Phonetics
Breathing: more on respiration and airstream mechanisms
Week 2: Phonation categories
Voice, tone, intonation, glottalization
Handouts: Phonetic Basis of Intonation
Tone
An Autosegmental Approach to Intonation
Homework: http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/jcoleman/phonation_intonation_homework.html
Week 3: Vowels, consonants, categories, the (un)realities of segments and phonemes
Week 4: Vowel features and systems; vowel harmony
Week 5: Brain vs. mouth
Coarticulation, multiple articulation, assimilation
Lips and velum; distributed exponents of "voicing"
Week 6: Logical and quantitative models
A grammar of syllables
Week 7: Stress and rhythm
Week 8: Prediction of stress