| CODE | LIN1090 | ||||||
| TITLE | General Phonetics/ Il-Fonetika Ġenerali | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Objectives The student will become familiar with the elements of speech production. The course constitutes a foundation for other Phonetics and linguistics courses. By the end of the course the student will be expected to use the terminology of articulatory phonetics fluently. The student is expected to apply the principles of Phonetics to discriminate between (as well as to produce) sounds used in different human languages and to transcribe using the IPA. Content The course deals with the following elements of speech production: (i) airstream mechanisms; (ii) phonation; (iii) articulation and (iv) co-ordination. It will include an introduction to the classical theory of the phoneme and associated concepts and terminology. The IPA will be used throughout the consideration of the phonetic analysis of speech which constitutes the major part of the course. Ear training and performance session take place in the Language Laboratory. This is a practical application of the elements of speech studies in the theoretical part of the course, the principles of General Phonetics. It includes training to discriminate between sounds made with different airstream mechanisms, different kinds and degrees of stricture and at different places of articulation as well as different phonation types. The student is given the opportunity to explore the use of his own vocal apparatus in producing sounds that are not a part of the inventory of his own native language but which are produced by other language communities elsewhere in the world. Reading List Main Texts: Laver, J. (1994) Principles in Phonetics. Cambridge University Press. Ashby, M. & Maidment, J. (2005) Introducing Phonetic Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Supplementary Texts: Abercrombie, D. (1967) Elements of General Phonetics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Catford, J.C. (1988) A Practical Introduction to Phonetics. New York: Oxford University Press. Ladefoged, P. (2006) A Course in Phonetics. Boston: Wadsworth – Thomson. Dictionary: Crystal, D. (2008) A Dictionary of Phonetics and Linguistics. |
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| RULES/CONDITIONS | In TAKING THIS UNIT YOU CANNOT TAKE LIN1190 | ||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Marie Alexander Luke Galea |
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