PHONETICS 3 & 4

Course Level:        2 nd Year BA Students

Credit Value: 2       Coefficient: 1   

Grading System:     50% Course Grades      50% EXAM

Course Grades:      (Attendance 10%         Quizzes  40%          Written Test 50% )

Course Description:

This course introduces second year EFL students to basic concepts in phonetics and phonology, including its theoretical and practical aspects. Students will gain an understanding on supra-segmental phonetics and aspects of connected speech in the English Language.

Learning Outcomes: 

On successful completion of this module, students are expected to have knowledge of the following concepts and demonstrate that knowledge through practical means:

• Syllable structure
• Word stress
• Aspects of Connected speech: Weak Forms; Elision; Linking; Assimilation
• Intonation
  

• Essential Readings: 

  Clark, J., & Yallop, C.(1992). An introduction to phonetics and phonology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

  Collins, B., & Mees, I.M.(2003). Practical phonetics and phonology. London: Routledge.

  Roach, P. (2009). English phonetics and phonology (4th ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  Course Objectives:

  - Students will identify the structure of English syllable and word stress placements.

  - Students will know different phonological processes such as assimilation, linking, etc.

  - Students will transcribe English larger stretches of speech.