N2BK_1FOF Phonetics and Phonology 1

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Alena Kovářová (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Káňa, Ph.D.
Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Helena Rytířová
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of this subject is to practise pronunciation of German vowels, diphthongs and consonants. The practice of German phonemes missing in Czech is especially stressed. Special attention is paid to German stress and also to German reduction of unstressed syllables.
Syllabus
  • 1. German stress 2. Pronunciation practice of German phones with stress on phonemes missing in Czech 3. Reduction in German pronunciation 4. German assimilation in comparison with the Czech one 5. German intonation Seminar, compulsory subject, credit: The students are supposed to read a short text reading and to master German pronunciation. Each student leads and complements his own phonetic lexicon. Students are suppposed to show their phonetic lexicons to get the credit.
Literature
  • KOVÁŘOVÁ, Alena. Úvod do fonetiky a fonologie němčiny (Introduction into German Phonetics and Phonology). 1st ed. Brno: Tisk OL Print Šlapanice, 2003, 60 pp. ISBN 80-210-3263-4. info
  • Duden :Aussprachewörterbuch : Wörterbuch der deutschen Standardaussprache. Edited by Max Mangold. 4. neu bearb. und aktualis. Mannheim: Dudenverlag, 2000, 894 s. ISBN 3-411-04064-5. info
Assessment methods
Seminar, compulsory subject, credit. The students read a short German text. Right pronunciation of problematic German phones learnt in the first semester is stressed. The students show their own phonetic wordbook.
Language of instruction
German
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 24 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014.
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