Description and contextualization of the subject

The main objective of the course is to offer students the background necessary to carry out phonetic-phonological work. The topics to be covered will be, among others, the main aspects of articulatory and acoustic phonetics, natural classes in phonology, underlying representations and derivational rules, syllabic structure, and suprasegmental phonology. Some of these topics will be presented in a historical context as well, so that students comprehend the most relevant phonological ideas and concepts on the subject and the state of current research on the subject. The presentations will always be based on empirical data from different languages, and a fundamental role will be played by practical exercises in phonetics and phonology.

The second main objective is to familiarize the student with Laboratory Phonology, a vision of phonology that aims to provide phonetic evidence to explain phonological phenomena of all sorts. Laboratory Phonology is couched in the branch of experimental linguistics: statement of an empirical research question, design of production/perception experiments, selection of subjects, recording / presentation of stimuli, acoustic / articulatory analysis, quantification of results and statistical analysis, interpretation of results, and extraction of conclusions. Ultimately, the final objective would be to ensure that the student could design an experimental of laboratory phonology that could be carried out in future courses.

Temary

First part:



1. Introduction. Production and perception of speech sounds.

2. Phonetics and phonology. Interrelation or differentiated areas?

3. Basic concepts of phonetics-phonology. Historical tour.

4. Field work. Experimental investigations.



Second part:



1. Acoustic phonetics and spectrographic analysis.

2. Suprasegmental phonology: mora, syllable, tone, accent, intonation.

3. Prosodic phonology.

4. Field work. Experimental investigations.



This evaluation system is designed for face-to-face teaching and will be adapted in the event that we enter a new state of health emergency and have to go to virtual teaching. In this case, the updated version of the program and the new evaluation system will be posted in the Egela virtual classroom.

Bibliography

Basic bibliography

- Introductions to phonetics and phonology:



Clark, John, Colin Yallop and Janet Fletcher. 2007. An introduction to phonetics and

phonology. [3rd edition]. Blackwell Publishing.

Davenport, Mike, and S. J. Hannahs. 2013. Introducing phonetics and phonology. [3rd edition]. London: Routledge.



- Phonetics:



Ashby, Patricia. 2011. Understanding Phonetics. Malden / Oxford: Blackwell.

Fernández Planas, Ana M. 2005. Así se habla. Nociones fundamentales de fonética general y española. Barcelona: Horsori.

Gil Fernández, Juana. 1990. Los sonidos del lenguaje. Madrid: Síntesis.

Ladefoged, Peter. 2001. Vowels and consonants. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Ladefoged, Peter. 2003. Phonetic data analysis. Blackwell Publishing.

Ladefoged, Peter, and Ian Maddieson. 1996. The sounds of the world’s languages. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Ladefoged, Peter, and Keith Johnson. 2011. A course in phonetics (6th ed.; with CD-ROM). Cengage Learning.

Martínez Celdrán, Eugenio, and Fernández Planas, Ana M. 2007. Manual de fonética española: Articulaciones y sonidos del español. Barcelona: Ariel.



- Phonology:



Gussenhoven, Carlos, and Haike Jacobs. 2017. Understanding phonology. [4th edition]. London: Routledge.

Hayes, Bruce. 2009. Introductory phonology. Wiley-Blackwell.

Odden, David. 2005. Introducing phonology. Cambridge University Press.

In-depth bibliography

To be presented in class in the presentation of the course.

Links

http://phonetics.ucla.edu



Access to sounds in A course in phonetics and Vowels and consonants, by Peter Ladefoged







http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/charts/IPAlab/IPAlab.htm



Access to sounds inn Handbook of the International Phonetic Association







http://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org



Official web page of the International Phonetic Association







http://www.yorku.ca/earmstro/ipa/



Interactive web page with IPA sounds







http://www.praat.org



Access to acoustic analysis software Praat, used worldwide by phonetic practitioners.







http://phonology.wordpress.com



Blog of Natural Phonology







http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/PhonLab/users/ohala/index3.html



John Ohala's web page