Second Year

This course involves teaching phonetics and phonology to the second year students. Emphases are on letting the students know about phonetic and phonological concepts and topics.

Within phonetics, light is shed on types of phonetics, organs of speech, consonants and vowels, place of articulation, manner of articulation, voicing, aspiration and phonetic transcription.

Within phonology, phonemes (including definition, phonic medium, speech sounds, symbols and transcription, phonetic and phonemic), allophones (including phonetic similarity, aspiration, free variation and complementary distribution), minimal pairs and sets are tackled. Also, the syllable (including its nature, structure, division, foot and its types), clusters (with consonants), stress (including definition, nature, levels, stress placement within words and sentences), weak forms, phonemic analysis (i.e. distinctive features), co-articulation effects (including rhythm, assimilation, linking and elision), and finally intonation (tone unit, types, structure and functions) are explained.

This is a student-centered course in which topics are presented by the instructor, and they are explained, assigned and completed by students both during lesson periods and outside of class. Some tasks, activities, assignments and quizzes are done via Moodle and in classes.